Interracial marriage can serve the colored spouse as a bid for deracialization and equality

Evidence

Insofar as truly interracial marriage is concerned, one can legitimately wonder to what extent it may not represent for the colored spouse a kind of subjective consecration to wiping out in himself and in his own mind the color prejudice from which he has suffered so long. It would be interesting to investigate this in a given number of cases and perhaps to seek in this clouded motivation the underlying reason for certain interracial marriages entered into outside the normal conditions of a happy household. Some men or some women, in effect, by choosing partners of another race, marry persons of a class or a culture inferior to their own whom they would not have chosen as spouses in their own race and whose chief asset seems to be the assurance that the partner will achieve denaturalization and (to use a loathsome word) “deracialization.” Among certain people of color, the fact that they are marrying someone of the white race seems to have overridden every other consideration. In this fact they find access to complete equality with that illustrious race, the master of the world, the ruler of the peoples of color… . — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 263

Categorization

• QUESTION: Fanon himself flags this as an empirical question worth investigating in a number of cases.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 263
• XREF: connects to: Mulatto women’s life-project is marriage to a wholly white European man; Light-skinned Negroes reject darker blacks and seek whiteness through marriage; The woman of color’s love is directed at whiteness itself, not the man (+6 more)

Related

• Light-skinned Negroes reject darker blacks and seek whiteness through marriage (similarity 0.92)
• Mulatto women’s life-project is marriage to a wholly white European man (similarity 0.85)
• Educated Black men reject darker compatriots by marrying toward whiteness (similarity 0.84)
• The woman of color’s love is directed at whiteness itself, not the man (similarity 0.82)
• Antillean women seek whiteness through desiring lighter-skinned partners (similarity 0.81)
• Negress and mulatto women pursue distinct psychic projects of whitening (similarity 0.80)
• A black woman’s longing to marry white reflects a vast internalized delusion (similarity 0.80)
• Black men’s inter-racial choices reveal sexist double standards against black women. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• White male-black female marriage would threaten white patriarchal rule unlike the reverse #contradicts (0.70) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 199
• An official’s marriage to a minority woman disproves alleged racial bias #qualifies (0.60) — Ruggero J. Aldisert, Agatha D. Aldisert, Logic for Lawyers- A Guide to Clear…, 768
• Educated Black men reject darker compatriots by marrying toward whiteness #corroborates (0.60)
• Antillean women seek whiteness through desiring lighter-skinned partners #corroborates (0.60) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 171
• Black men’s inter-racial choices reveal sexist double standards against black women. #complicates (0.50) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 208
• Whiteness links beauty with citizenship and uncontested belonging. #qualifies (0.50)