Educated black men perform servile humility toward lighter-skinned women

Evidence

One must apologize for daring to offer black love to a white soul. This we encounter again in René Maran: the fear, the timorousness, the humility of the black man in bis relations with the white woman, or in any case with a woman whiter than he. Just as Mayotte Capécia tolerates anything from her lord, Andre, Mactar makes himself the slave of Nini, the mulatto. Prepared to sell his soul. But what is waiting for this boor is the law of plea in bar. The mulatto considers his letter an insult, an outrage to her honor as a “white lady.” — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 201

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The educated black man offers love with fear and self-abasement to whiter women; Educated Black men reject darker compatriots by marrying toward whiteness; Black men asserted dominance over women to compensate for losing to white men (+3 more)

Related

• The educated black man offers love with fear and self-abasement to whiter women (similarity 0.91)
• Educated Black men reject darker compatriots by marrying toward whiteness (similarity 0.89)
• Educated women of color who disavow blackness pass that pathology on to students (similarity 0.80)
• White superiority belief coexists with black men’s compulsion to prove their intellect (similarity 0.79)
• A white man’s love instantly elevates a mulatto woman from slave to master class (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Black women’s professed love for white men reorders as love of whiteness itself #expands (0.50) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 160
• White superiority belief coexists with black men’s compulsion to prove their intellect #expands (0.40) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 38
• Black men asserted patriarchy to compensate for losing status to white men #contradicts (0.35) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 269
• Black men asserted dominance over women to compensate for losing to white men #contradicts (0.30)