Negress and mulatto women pursue distinct psychic projects of whitening

Evidence

First of all, there are two such women: the Negress and the mulatto. The first has only one possibility and one concern: to turn white. The second wants not only to turn white but also to avoid slipping back. What indeed could be more illogical than a mulatto woman’s acceptance of a Negro husband? For it must be understood once and for all that it is a question of saving the race. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 196

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the two types of women of color in Fanon’s psychoanalytic framework.
• XREF: connects to: The Negress and the mulatto pursue whiteness with distinctly different anxieties.; Negresses and mulattoes differ in how they pursue whiteness to save their race; Antillean women seek whiteness through desiring lighter-skinned partners — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 171 (+3 more)

Related

• The Negress and the mulatto pursue whiteness with distinctly different anxieties. (similarity 0.94)
• Negresses and mulattoes differ in how they pursue whiteness to save their race (similarity 0.94)
• Antillean women seek whiteness through desiring lighter-skinned partners (similarity 0.87)
• Women of color internalize prohibited white assets because they feel inferior (similarity 0.83)
• Educated mulatto women shift their justifications for rejecting blackness when each is refuted. (similarity 0.82)
• Educated mulatto women rationalize anti-Negro prejudice through shifting evasive justifications (similarity 0.82)
• Mulatto women’s life-project is marriage to a wholly white European man (similarity 0.81)
• Light-skinned Negroes reject darker blacks and seek whiteness through marriage (similarity 0.81)
• Interracial marriage can serve the colored spouse as a bid for deracialization and equality (similarity 0.80)
• The Negress feels inferior and seeks whiteness by internalizing prohibited assets. (similarity 0.80)
• Educated women of color who disavow blackness pass that pathology on to students (similarity 0.80)
• A black woman’s longing to marry white reflects a vast internalized delusion (similarity 0.79)
• The woman of color’s love is directed at whiteness itself, not the man (similarity 0.79)
• A white man’s love instantly elevates a mulatto woman from slave to master class (similarity 0.79)
• Educated Black men reject darker compatriots by marrying toward whiteness (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• The Negress seeks white admittance out of felt inferiority via affective erethism #expands (0.75)
• Educated mulatto women rationalize anti-Negro prejudice through shifting evasive justifications #expands (0.70) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 209
• Whiteness links beauty with citizenship and uncontested belonging. #corroborates (0.60)