Colonized men marry European women partly out of pride and revenge
Evidence
The majority of them, including those of lighter skin who often go to the extreme of denying both their countries and their mothers, tend to marry in Europe not so much out of love as for the satisfaction of being the master of a European woman; and a certain tang of proud revenge enters into this. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 254
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Antilleans arriving in France pursued sex with white women as a ritual of manhood; Winning over women gave colonial power over men and destructured culture — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 135; Colonial sexual asymmetry makes white male promiscuity ordinary but black male-white female union romantic — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 902 (+1 more)
Related
- Colonial sexual asymmetry makes white male promiscuity ordinary but black male-white female union romantic (similarity 0.86)
- Antilleans arriving in France pursued sex with white women as a ritual of manhood (similarity 0.86)
- Antillean men arriving in France sought white women as initiation into manhood (similarity 0.81)
- Colonial marriage attitudes shifted from handicapping to requiring white wives (similarity 0.80)
- Black women’s professed love for white men reorders as love of whiteness itself (similarity 0.79)
- Winning over women gave colonial power over men and destructured culture (similarity 0.79)
Broader Connections
- Colonial sexual asymmetry makes white male promiscuity ordinary but black male-white female union romantic
#expands(0.80) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 902