Colonized women historically sought whiteness as beauty and virtue

Evidence

Paramount in the mind and soul of Mayotte is this truth: “I am white; in other words, I embody beauty and virtue, which have never been black. I am the color of day.” A little later he argues, “Mayotte is striving for lactification. In a word, the race must be whitened; every woman in Martinique knows this, says this, and reiterates it.” — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 158

Categorization

• DEFINE: ‘Lactification’ — the compulsive self-whitening of a colonized subject’s self-image — is a Fanonian term worth retaining.
• XREF: connects to: Orientalist slavery paintings featured sympathetic fair-skinned female slaves; Englishwomen earned equality claims by demonstrating superiority over colonized women — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 162

Related

• Antillean women seek whiteness through desiring lighter-skinned partners (similarity 0.81)
• Antillean women pursue lactification to bleach the race itself, not preserve it (similarity 0.81)
• The literary establishment rewards colonized women who demonize their own men (similarity 0.78)