Educated women of color who disavow blackness pass that pathology on to students

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 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Contemporary black women could not join together to fight for women’s rights because we did not see “womanhood” as an important aspect of our identity. Racist, sexist socialization had conditioned us to devalue our femaleness and to regard race as the only relevant label of identification. In other words, we were asked to deny a part of ourselves—and we did. Consequently, when the women’s movement raised the issue of sexist oppression, we argued that sexism was insignificant in light of the harsher, more brutal reality of racism. We were afraid to acknowledge that sexism could be just as oppressive as racism. We clung to the hope that liberation from racial oppression would be all that was necessary for us to be free. — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 24 (#expands, via linked claim)

When the question is put directly, then, the white man agrees to give his sister to the black–but on one condition: You have nothing in common with real Negroes. You are not black, you are “extremely brown.” … This procedure is quite familiar to colored students in France. Society refuses to consider them genuine Negroes. The Negro is a savage, whereas the student is civilized. “You’re ‘us,’” Coulanges tells him; and if anyone thinks you are a Negro he is mistaken, because you merely look like one. But Jean Veneuse does not want this. He cannot accept it, because he knows. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 251 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: France-educated Black women will transmit white-supremacist attitudes to Antillean schools.; Educated mulatto women shift their justifications for rejecting blackness when each is refuted.; Educated mulatto women rationalize anti-Negro prejudice through shifting evasive justifications — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 209 (+6 more)

Related

• Educated mulatto women shift their justifications for rejecting blackness when each is refuted. (similarity 0.93)
• Educated mulatto women rationalize anti-Negro prejudice through shifting evasive justifications (similarity 0.88)
• Negresses and mulattoes differ in how they pursue whiteness to save their race (similarity 0.84)
• White society accepts the educated black only by denying he is genuinely black (similarity 0.82)
• Educated Black professionals remain tokens marked by their color (similarity 0.82)
• White acceptance of black intellectuals requires denying their genuine blackness (similarity 0.82)
• White-imposed dehumanization drives the black subject to seek whiteness (similarity 0.81)
• Educated Black men reject darker compatriots by marrying toward whiteness (similarity 0.80)
• Educated black people are accused of ingratitude toward their white benefactors (similarity 0.80)
• External education lets whites accept the black man as culturally white (similarity 0.80)
• Negress and mulatto women pursue distinct psychic projects of whitening (similarity 0.80)
• Educated black men perform servile humility toward lighter-skinned women (similarity 0.80)
• Women of color internalize prohibited white assets because they feel inferior (similarity 0.79)
• Negritude writers inverted white stereotypes into self-affirmation (similarity 0.79)
• Negroes’ strivings aim to prove black civilization to whites (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Educated mulatto women rationalize anti-Negro prejudice through shifting evasive justifications #corroborates (0.70) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 209
• Racist, sexist socialization conditioned black women to devalue femaleness and identify only with race #expands (0.60) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 24
• Education and refinement could qualify blackness in Antillean social judgment #corroborates (0.55) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 995
• White acceptance of black intellectuals requires denying their genuine blackness #corroborates (0.55) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 251
• Educated black people are accused of ingratitude toward their white benefactors #corroborates (0.50) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 134