Suppressed interracial desire fueled segregationist lies

Evidence

The complex web of race and sex immobilized the South. One needed only to look carefully at the people to see that what happened after the sun went down betrayed the lie of hard-core segregationists. Under the cover of night, the very people they despised as less than themselves became the object of their carnal desire. Monstrous intimacies defined the region and gave life to a host of fantasies that regularly debased men and women—especially white men and women—and fueled the lies that sought to hide it all in plain sight. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Begin Again, 193

Categorization

• XREF: Directly anticipates the reader’s stated connection to the ‘monstrous intimacies’ theme and echoes the argument about white desire in Baldwin’s earlier essays, which the reader is weighing against the late period.