Educated Black men reject darker compatriots by marrying toward whiteness

Evidence

I turn away from these inspectors of the Ark before the Flood and I attach myself to my brothers, Negroes like myself. To my horror, they too reject me. They are almost white. And besides they are about to marry white women. They will have children faintly tinged with brown. Who knows, perhaps little by little… . — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 421 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

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 (#expands, via linked claim)

We are thus put on notice that what Mayotte wants is a kind of lactification. For, in a word, the race must be whitened; every woman in Martinique knows this, says it, repeats it. Whiten the race, save the race, but not in the sense that one might think: not “preserve the uniqueness of that part of the world in which they grew up,” but make sure that it will be white. … It is always essential to avoid falling back into the pit of niggerhood, and every woman in the Antilles, whether in a casual flirtation or in a serious affair, is determined to select the least black of the men. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 171 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Light-skinned Negroes reject darker blacks and seek whiteness through marriage; The educated black man offers love with fear and self-abasement to whiter women; Interracial marriage can serve the colored spouse as a bid for deracialization and equality — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 263 (+4 more)

Related

• Light-skinned Negroes reject darker blacks and seek whiteness through marriage (similarity 0.90)
• The educated black man offers love with fear and self-abasement to whiter women (similarity 0.90)
• Educated black men perform servile humility toward lighter-skinned women (similarity 0.89)
• Light-skinned, European-educated Black men reject their dark-skinned brothers. (similarity 0.86)
• Antillean women seek whiteness through desiring lighter-skinned partners (similarity 0.85)
• Antillean folklore and mate-choice rules enforce avoidance of the darkest skin (similarity 0.84)
• Interracial marriage can serve the colored spouse as a bid for deracialization and equality (similarity 0.84)
• The woman of color’s love is directed at whiteness itself, not the man (similarity 0.83)
• Black women’s professed love for white men reorders as love of whiteness itself (similarity 0.82)
• A black woman’s longing to marry white reflects a vast internalized delusion (similarity 0.81)
• Martinican folk humor codified the absurdity of dark skin in a white world (similarity 0.80)
• Negresses and mulattoes differ in how they pursue whiteness to save their race (similarity 0.80)
• Educated women of color who disavow blackness pass that pathology on to students (similarity 0.80)
• Antillean women pursue lactification to bleach the race itself, not preserve it (similarity 0.80)
• Mulatto women’s life-project is marriage to a wholly white European man (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Light-skinned, European-educated Black men reject their dark-skinned brothers. #corroborates (0.80) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 421
• Educated black men perform servile humility toward lighter-skinned women #expands (0.75) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 201
• Antillean women seek whiteness through desiring lighter-skinned partners #exemplifies (0.40) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 171