Negresses and mulattoes differ in how they pursue whiteness to save their race

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 (#expands, via linked claim)

The educated mulatto woman, especially if she is a student, engages in doubly equivocal behavior. She says, “I do not like the Negro because he is savage. Not savage in a cannibal way, but lacking refinement.” An abstract point of view. And when one points out to her that in this respect some black people may be her superiors, she falls back on their “ugliness.” A factitious point of view. Faced with the proofs of a genuine black esthetic, she professes to be unable to understand it; one tries then to explain its canon to her; the wings of her nose flare, there is a sharp intake of breath, “she is free to choose her own husband.” As a last resort, the appeal to subjectivity. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 209 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Antilleans internalize European archetypes such that their anima and animus are white; The Negress and the mulatto pursue whiteness with distinctly different anxieties.; Negress and mulatto women pursue distinct psychic projects of whitening — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 196 (+5 more)

Related

• The Negress and the mulatto pursue whiteness with distinctly different anxieties. (similarity 0.95)
• Negress and mulatto women pursue distinct psychic projects of whitening (similarity 0.94)
• Educated mulatto women rationalize anti-Negro prejudice through shifting evasive justifications (similarity 0.88)
• Educated mulatto women shift their justifications for rejecting blackness when each is refuted. (similarity 0.87)
• Antillean women seek whiteness through desiring lighter-skinned partners (similarity 0.84)
• Educated women of color who disavow blackness pass that pathology on to students (similarity 0.84)
• Mulatto women’s life-project is marriage to a wholly white European man (similarity 0.81)
• Educated Black men reject darker compatriots by marrying toward whiteness (similarity 0.80)
• Women of color internalize prohibited white assets because they feel inferior (similarity 0.80)
• Light-skinned Negroes reject darker blacks and seek whiteness through marriage (similarity 0.80)
• The Negress feels inferior and seeks whiteness by internalizing prohibited assets. (similarity 0.79)
• White-imposed dehumanization drives the black subject to seek whiteness (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Negress and mulatto women pursue distinct psychic projects of whitening #expands (0.90) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 196
• The Negress seeks white admittance out of felt inferiority via affective erethism #exemplifies (0.75)
• Educated mulatto women rationalize anti-Negro prejudice through shifting evasive justifications #exemplifies (0.65) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 209
• The Negro’s whiteness-seeking stems from overcompensation for racial inferiority #exemplifies (0.60)
• Colonial rule rewarded mixed-bloods according to their degree of whiteness. #corroborates (0.55)
• White-imposed dehumanization drives the black subject to seek whiteness #expands (0.55)