White male identity depends on a barrier against both femininity and blackness.

Evidence

Briefly, and it is only a fleeting sensation in the night, the sheriff wishes that he could be buried inside the warmth and safety of his wife’s body and never again have ‘to go downtown to face those faces.’ However, to fulfil this longing for the feminine, to give himself up to the song, means having to abandon the masculine self that stands as a barrier against blackness. He defends himself against the longing by calling up the sensations of beating the prisoner, a Black man who led the voter registration drive and who, as a ten-year-old child, had once confronted the sheriff. — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 172

Categorization

• DEFINE: Couples the feminine and the racial as twin threats the white masculine self must hold at bay.