Educated mulatto women rationalize anti-Negro prejudice through shifting evasive justifications

Evidence

The educated mulatto woman, especially if she is a student, engages in doubly equivocal behavior. She says, “I do not like the Negro because he is savage. Not savage in a cannibal way, but lacking refinement.” An abstract point of view. And when one points out to her that in this respect some black people may be her superiors, she falls back on their “ugliness.” A factitious point of view. Faced with the proofs of a genuine black esthetic, she professes to be unable to understand it; one tries then to explain its canon to her; the wings of her nose flare, there is a sharp intake of breath, “she is free to choose her own husband.” As a last resort, the appeal to subjectivity. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 209

Categorization

• XREF: Ties to the reader’s question about how education location shapes the colonial subject’s self-narrative. — connects to: Educated mulatto women shift their justifications for rejecting blackness when each is refuted.; Educated women of color who disavow blackness pass that pathology on to students; Negresses and mulattoes differ in how they pursue whiteness to save their race (+2 more)

Related

• Educated mulatto women shift their justifications for rejecting blackness when each is refuted. (similarity 0.96)
• Negresses and mulattoes differ in how they pursue whiteness to save their race (similarity 0.88)
• Educated women of color who disavow blackness pass that pathology on to students (similarity 0.88)
• The Negress and the mulatto pursue whiteness with distinctly different anxieties. (similarity 0.83)
• Negress and mulatto women pursue distinct psychic projects of whitening (similarity 0.82)