Racist laws actively shaped the sexual relationships they claimed to condemn.

Evidence

Such febrile talk was a way to finesse the contradictions produced by white patriarchy, of abstracting these relationships from the complicated and contorted relations of power that defined them. … But, as Julien Raimond pointed out, it was racist laws that forced free women of color “to prostitute themselves to whites” rather than marry them. … Indeed free women of color were a major economic, social, and cultural force. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 247 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

In relation to the Negro, everything takes place on the genital level. A few years ago, I remarked to some friends during a discussion that in a general sense the white man behaves toward the Negro as an elder brother reacts to the birth of a younger. I have since learned that Richard Sterba arrived at the same conclusion in America. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 592 (#qualifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Racist marriage laws pushed free women of color into compensated partnerships.; Racist marriage laws drove free women of color into concubinage — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 247; Whites sustained intimate family ties to people of color they legally degraded (+1 more)

Related

• Whites sustained intimate family ties to people of color they legally degraded (similarity 0.91)
• Racist marriage laws pushed free women of color into compensated partnerships. (similarity 0.91)
• Racist marriage laws drove free women of color into concubinage (similarity 0.90)
• Raimond blamed racist law on jealous white women and interracial desire (similarity 0.86)
• Wealth passed through free women of color, not their white husbands. (similarity 0.84)
• White-Black relations are conducted entirely on the genital level (similarity 0.83)
• Racist marriage laws punished white men yet did not stop cohabitation (similarity 0.81)
• Sexual phenomena are central to understanding racial relations individually (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Racist marriage laws drove free women of color into concubinage #exemplifies (0.90) — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 247
• Whites sustained intimate family ties to people of color they legally degraded #exemplifies (0.80)
• White-Black relations are conducted entirely on the genital level #qualifies (0.40) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 592