Wet-nursing bonds explain the split image of black and white women.

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

• XREF: Grounds the mammies/southern-belle binary in psychoanalytic family structure, complementing the sexual double standard discussed elsewhere. — connects to: White women feared black women’s perceived immorality threatened their own status — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 384; Intimate bodily togetherness flattens perceived racial difference — Amit Singh, “Carnal conviviality” and the end of…, 18; Segregation confined black-white female contact to the servant-served relation (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Intimate bodily togetherness flattens perceived racial difference #expands (0.80) — Amit Singh, “Carnal conviviality” and the end of…, 18
• Segregation confined black-white female contact to the servant-served relation #expands (0.72)
• Pregnancy and breastfeeding trigger derogation of women when death and animality are salient #responds-to (0.72) — Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg, Tom Pyszczynski, The Worm at the Core, 603
• White women feared black women’s perceived immorality threatened their own status #qualifies (0.71) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 384