Wet-nurse intimacy with black women set the template for the Southern sexual double standard.

Evidence

Kovel explores the other, positive, side of the oedipal triangle in discussing the role which “black mammies” play in the upbringing of many white children from well-to-do families in the plantation society of the Deep South. The contrast between the strong “libidinal” bond established with wet nurse or nanny, and the emotional distance created by the mother, sets the template for the sexual/racial double standard: black women being regarded as warm and sexually available (objects of lust and disregard), and white women as unapproachable “southern belles” (objects of idealization and longing). — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1284

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

• QUESTION: The paragraph is cut off at ‘black women’ — the account of how the double standard follows needs the continuation to be complete for full force.
• XREF: Connects to the reader’s interests in the psychic structure of racial-moral hypocrisy and to debates about mammy figures in American memory.

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• Wet-nursing bonds explain the split image of black and white women. (similarity 0.93)