White men mocked black women who most resembled white ladies.

Evidence

Those black women suffered most whose behavior best exemplified that of a “lady”. A black woman dressed tidy and clean, carrying herself in a dignified manner, was usually the object of mud-slinging by white men who ridiculed and mocked her self-improvement efforts. They reminded her that in the eyes of the white public she would never be seen as worthy of consideration or respect. — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 174

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Returning blacks are mocked for imperfect French as a weapon against them; White women’s racism targeted black women more intensely than black men — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 383; White writers fabricated black women’s unchastity to justify racial segregation. — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 176 (+1 more)

Related

• White writers fabricated black women’s unchastity to justify racial segregation. (similarity 0.86)
• Returning blacks are mocked for imperfect French as a weapon against them (similarity 0.85)
• Black women wage-earners faced assault from both white and black men. (similarity 0.83)
• White women’s racism targeted black women more intensely than black men (similarity 0.83)
• White women feared black women’s perceived immorality threatened their own status (similarity 0.82)
• White feminists dismissed black women’s attention to racial difference (similarity 0.80)
• Black men asserted dominance over women to compensate for losing to white men (similarity 0.79)
• White women, not white men, were slavery’s most direct beneficiaries (similarity 0.79)
• White mistresses often punished rather than protected sexually exploited slave women (similarity 0.79)
• White mistresses usually sided with their husbands against enslaved women (similarity 0.78)
• Black professional achievement did not shield women from being labeled whores. (similarity 0.78)
• The women-and-blacks analogy erased black women by equating women with whites (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• White writers fabricated black women’s unchastity to justify racial segregation. #expands (0.55) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 176
• Black women wage-earners faced assault from both white and black men. #complicates (0.50) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 183