Popular discourse opposed black and white women’s sexualities more sharply than men’s

Evidence

Equally negative representations of black women’s sexuality figured in popular and academic discourses. Indeed, the disjunction between images of white and black women was more glaring than that between white and black men. Black manhood was represented as male sexuality run rampant. Black womanhood and white womanhood were represented with diametrically opposed sexualities. — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 871

Categorization

• XREF: Sets up why African-American women’s respectability politics had to counter accusations of innate promiscuity — the coercive context for the politics Higginbotham coins. — connects to: White women’s racism targeted black women more intensely than black men — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 383; White women historically invoked racial superiority to assert sexual agency against patriarchal control. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1287; White women’s linguistic erasure of black women served their own political interests — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 416 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• White women historically invoked racial superiority to assert sexual agency against patriarchal control. #expands (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1287
• White women’s racism targeted black women more intensely than black men #exemplifies (0.78) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 383
• White women’s linguistic erasure of black women served their own political interests #exemplifies (0.76) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 416
• Black men’s inter-racial choices reveal sexist double standards against black women. #corroborates (0.74) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 208