Negrophobic women project onto Negroes the sexual powers their own lives lacked

Evidence

I do not want to elaborate on the infrastructure of this psychoneurosis. The questions put by the chief psychiatrist had brought out a fear of imaginary Negroes–a fear first experienced at the age of twelve. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 746 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

By flaunting their sexual lust for the bodies of black women and their preference for them as sexual partners, white men successfully pitted white women and enslaved black women against one another. In most instances, the white mistress did not envy the black female slave her role as sexual object; she feared only that her newly acquired social status might be threatened by white male sexual interaction with black women. His sexual involvement with black women (even if that involvement was rape) in effect reminded the white female of her subordinate position in relationship to him. For he could exercise his power as racial imperialist and sexual imperialist to rape or seduce black women, while white women were not free to rape or seduce black men without fear of punishment. Though the white female might condemn the actions of a white male who chose to interact sexually with black female slaves, she was unable to dictate to him proper behavior. Nor could she retaliate by engaging in sexual relationships with enslaved or free black men. Not surprisingly, she directed her anger and rage at the enslaved black women. — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 451 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Europe’s contact with black peoples made Negroes the projected principle of evil; White men’s racial hatred of Negroes is a disguised sexual revenge; Negrophobic women’s fear arises from imagination, not real danger (+8 more)

Related

• Negrophobic women’s fear arises from imagination, not real danger (similarity 0.86)
• White men project their repressed sexual desires onto the Negro as biological danger. (similarity 0.84)
• White men’s racial hatred of Negroes is a disguised sexual revenge (similarity 0.84)
• White identification with the Negro springs from projected fear of retaliation (similarity 0.83)
• Sexual phenomena are central to understanding racial experience psychoanalytically (similarity 0.82)
• The patient’s psychoneurosis rested on a fear of imaginary Negroes formed at age twelve (similarity 0.82)
• The fantasy of Negro sexuality exceeds any actual sexual experience with them (similarity 0.82)
• White male sexual power over slaves redirected white women’s anger onto black women (similarity 0.80)
• A white woman’s alienation resulted from childhood fear of the Negro (similarity 0.80)
• The white woman’s rape fantasy displaces onto the Negro an aggression the father rejected (similarity 0.79)
• White women feared black women’s perceived immorality threatened their own status (similarity 0.79)
• The white woman’s pursuit of Negro lovers sought self-dissolution she could not attain (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Negrophobic women’s fear arises from imagination, not real danger #expands (0.70)
• The patient’s psychoneurosis rested on a fear of imaginary Negroes formed at age twelve #exemplifies (0.65) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 746
• Applying Odier’s trauma theory to Negrophobia raises doubts about actual sexual trauma #responds-to (0.60)
• White male sexual power over slaves redirected white women’s anger onto black women #expands (0.60) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 451