The woman of color’s love is directed at whiteness itself, not the man

Evidence

Mayotte loves a white man to whom she submits in everything. He is her lord. She asks nothing, demands nothing, except a bit of whiteness in her life. When she tries to determine in her own mind whether the man is handsome or ugly, she writes, “All I know is that he had blue eyes, blond hair, and a light skin, and that I loved him.” It is not difficult to see that a rearrangement of these elements in their proper hierarchy would produce something of this order: “I loved him because he had blue eyes, blond hair, and a light skin.” We who come from the Antilles know one thing only too well: Blue eyes, the people say, frighten the Negro. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 160 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

For after all we have a right to be perturbed when we read, in Je suis Martiniquaise: “I should have liked to be married, but to a white man. But a woman of color is never altogether respectable in a white man’s eyes. Even when he loves her. I knew that.” This passage, which serves in a way as the conclusion of a vast delusion, prods one’s brain. One day a woman named Mayotte Capécia, obeying a motivation whose elements are difficult to detect, sat down to write 202 pages–her life–in which the most ridiculous ideas proliferated at random. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 159 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Black women’s professed love for white men reorders as love of whiteness itself — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 160; Antillean women seek whiteness through desiring lighter-skinned partners — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 171; A black woman’s longing to marry white reflects a vast internalized delusion — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 159 (+4 more)

Related

• Black women’s professed love for white men reorders as love of whiteness itself (similarity 0.93)
• A black woman’s longing to marry white reflects a vast internalized delusion (similarity 0.90)
• Colonial desire inverts cause and effect, making whiteness the true object of love (similarity 0.88)
• Antillean women seek whiteness through desiring lighter-skinned partners (similarity 0.86)
• Educated Black men reject darker compatriots by marrying toward whiteness (similarity 0.83)
• Interracial marriage can serve the colored spouse as a bid for deracialization and equality (similarity 0.82)
• Light-skinned Negroes reject darker blacks and seek whiteness through marriage (similarity 0.81)
• The educated black man offers love with fear and self-abasement to whiter women (similarity 0.80)
• Mulatto women’s life-project is marriage to a wholly white European man (similarity 0.80)
• Negress and mulatto women pursue distinct psychic projects of whitening (similarity 0.79)
• The white woman’s pursuit of Negro lovers sought self-dissolution she could not attain (similarity 0.79)
• The Uncle Remus stories encode simultaneous white love-seeking and hatred of blacks (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Black women’s professed love for white men reorders as love of whiteness itself #corroborates (0.95) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 160
• Colonial desire inverts cause and effect, making whiteness the true object of love #corroborates (0.90)
• A black woman’s longing to marry white reflects a vast internalized delusion #corroborates (0.80) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 159
• Antillean women seek whiteness through desiring lighter-skinned partners #expands (0.70) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 171
• Interracial marriage can serve the colored spouse as a bid for deracialization and equality #expands (0.60) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 263
• Light-skinned Negroes reject darker blacks and seek whiteness through marriage #corroborates (0.60)
• Women of color internalize prohibited white assets because they feel inferior #complicates (0.55) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 213