Mulatto women’s life-project is marriage to a wholly white European man

Evidence

Something remarkable must have happened on the day when the white man declared his love to the mulatto. There was recognition, incorporation into a group that had seemed hermetic. The psychological minus-value, this feeling of insignificance and its corollary, the impossibility of reaching the light, totally vanished. From one day to the next, the mulatto went from the class of slaves to that of masters. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 207 (#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: Antilleans internalize European archetypes such that their anima and animus are white; A white man’s love instantly elevates a mulatto woman from slave to master class — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 207; Interracial marriage can serve the colored spouse as a bid for deracialization and equality — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 263

Related

• A white man’s love instantly elevates a mulatto woman from slave to master class (similarity 0.87)
• Interracial marriage can serve the colored spouse as a bid for deracialization and equality (similarity 0.85)
• Negress and mulatto women pursue distinct psychic projects of whitening (similarity 0.81)
• Negresses and mulattoes differ in how they pursue whiteness to save their race (similarity 0.81)
• Light-skinned Negroes reject darker blacks and seek whiteness through marriage (similarity 0.80)
• Educated Black men reject darker compatriots by marrying toward whiteness (similarity 0.80)
• The woman of color’s love is directed at whiteness itself, not the man (similarity 0.80)
• The Negress and the mulatto pursue whiteness with distinctly different anxieties. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• A white man’s love instantly elevates a mulatto woman from slave to master class #corroborates (0.85) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 207
• Interracial marriage can serve the colored spouse as a bid for deracialization and equality #expands (0.80) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 263