Light-skinned Negroes reject darker blacks and seek whiteness through marriage

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)

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 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Educated Black men reject darker compatriots by marrying toward whiteness; Antillean women seek whiteness through desiring lighter-skinned partners — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 171; Interracial marriage can serve the colored spouse as a bid for deracialization and equality — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 263 (+6 more)

Related

• Interracial marriage can serve the colored spouse as a bid for deracialization and equality (similarity 0.92)
• Educated Black men reject darker compatriots by marrying toward whiteness (similarity 0.90)
• Light-skinned, European-educated Black men reject their dark-skinned brothers. (similarity 0.86)
• Antillean women seek whiteness through desiring lighter-skinned partners (similarity 0.83)
• A black woman’s longing to marry white reflects a vast internalized delusion (similarity 0.81)
• The woman of color’s love is directed at whiteness itself, not the man (similarity 0.81)
• Negress and mulatto women pursue distinct psychic projects of whitening (similarity 0.81)
• Mulatto women’s life-project is marriage to a wholly white European man (similarity 0.80)
• Negresses and mulattoes differ in how they pursue whiteness to save their race (similarity 0.80)
• Black women’s professed love for white men reorders as love of whiteness itself (similarity 0.79)
• The Negress and the mulatto pursue whiteness with distinctly different anxieties. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Educated Black men reject darker compatriots by marrying toward whiteness #corroborates (0.90)
• Light-skinned, European-educated Black men reject their dark-skinned brothers. #corroborates (0.85) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 421
• Interracial marriage can serve the colored spouse as a bid for deracialization and equality #expands (0.70) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 263
• A black woman’s longing to marry white reflects a vast internalized delusion #corroborates (0.60) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 159
• Antillean women seek whiteness through desiring lighter-skinned partners #corroborates (0.55) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 171
• The Negro’s whiteness-seeking stems from overcompensation for racial inferiority #complicates (0.50)
• 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
• White-imposed dehumanization drives the black subject to seek whiteness #complicates (0.40)