Mulatto families were denied the right to evolve toward whiteness

Evidence

In response to a profound desire they sought to change, to “evolve.” This right was denied to them. At any rate, it was challenged. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 211

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Whites sustained intimate family ties to people of color they legally degraded; Enlightenment universalism made racial exclusion the sole unjustifiable barrier to free-colored citizenship; Cultural imposition forces colonized subjects to identify against their own ancestry (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• White planters rejected free-colored aid even with the colony under siege #corroborates (0.55)
• Whites sustained intimate family ties to people of color they legally degraded #contradicts (0.50)
• Enlightenment universalism made racial exclusion the sole unjustifiable barrier to free-colored citizenship #qualifies (0.45)
• Cultural imposition forces colonized subjects to identify against their own ancestry #expands (0.40)
• Whiteness was defined through exclusion of non-black immigrant groups too. #expands (0.40)
• Mastery of the colonizer’s language confers honorary whiteness on the colonized #expands (0.35)
• Imperial language instruction did not guarantee colonized people entry into the imperial nation #expands (0.30)