Raimond blamed racist law on jealous white women and interracial desire

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 (#contradicts, via linked claim)

Given the psychohistory of American racism, for white women to demand more rights from white men and stress that without such rights they would be placed in a social position like that of black men, not like that of black people, was to evoke in the minds of racist white men an image of white womanhood being degraded. It was a subtle appeal to white men to protect the white female’s position on the race/sex hierarchy. — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 422 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: 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; White women’s jealousy drove the expansion of racist colonial legislation. (+2 more)

Related

• Racist marriage laws drove free women of color into concubinage (similarity 0.90)
• Whites sustained intimate family ties to people of color they legally degraded (similarity 0.90)
• Racist marriage laws pushed free women of color into compensated partnerships. (similarity 0.88)
• White women’s jealousy drove the expansion of racist colonial legislation. (similarity 0.87)
• Racist laws actively shaped the sexual relationships they claimed to condemn. (similarity 0.86)
• Wealth passed through free women of color, not their white husbands. (similarity 0.84)
• Jilted French women’s jealousy drove the expansion of racist legal codes (similarity 0.83)
• Raimond blamed white men’s sexual desire for colonial racial hierarchy (similarity 0.80)
• Racist marriage laws punished white men yet did not stop cohabitation (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Whites sustained intimate family ties to people of color they legally degraded #corroborates (0.70)
• Racist marriage laws drove free women of color into concubinage #contradicts (0.60) — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 247
• White women’s rights appeals exploited racism against black men #corroborates (0.55) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 422
• White women feared black women’s perceived immorality threatened their own status #expands (0.40) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 384