White men were encouraged to exploit black women but not marry them

Evidence

In the case of black women and white men, inter-racial sex was both encouraged and condoned as long as it did not lead to marriage. By perpetuating the myth that all black women were incapable of fidelity and sexually loose, whites hoped to so devalue them that no white man would marry a black woman. After manumission, white men who treated black women with respect or sought to integrate a black female into respectable white society were persecuted and ostracized. — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 193

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Colonial marriage attitudes shifted from handicapping to requiring white wives; White male sexual power over slaves redirected white women’s anger onto black women — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 451; White wives sometimes encouraged their husbands to take black mistresses. — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 181 (+7 more)

Related

• White wives sometimes encouraged their husbands to take black mistresses. (similarity 0.88)
• Colonial marriage attitudes shifted from handicapping to requiring white wives (similarity 0.88)
• Black men’s inter-racial choices reveal sexist double standards against black women. (similarity 0.87)
• White male-black female marriage would threaten white patriarchal rule unlike the reverse (similarity 0.85)
• Whites feared legally sanctioned racial mixing of either sex (similarity 0.85)
• White men created the race-sex hierarchy that black men accept and support. (similarity 0.84)
• Colonial sexual asymmetry makes white male promiscuity ordinary but black male-white female union romantic (similarity 0.84)
• Warnings against white men function as psychological control over black women’s freedom. (similarity 0.83)
• White mistresses usually sided with their husbands against enslaved women (similarity 0.82)
• The black rapist myth responded to marriage fears, not real rape (similarity 0.81)
• Wealth passed through free women of color, not their white husbands. (similarity 0.81)
• Racist marriage laws pushed free women of color into compensated partnerships. (similarity 0.81)
• White male sexual power over slaves redirected white women’s anger onto black women (similarity 0.81)
• Black men’s alienation stemmed from Black women having any power at all (similarity 0.81)
• White women, not white men, were slavery’s most direct beneficiaries (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• White male-black female marriage would threaten white patriarchal rule unlike the reverse #expands (0.70) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 199
• Whites sustained intimate family ties to people of color they legally degraded #complicates (0.60)
• White men project their repressed sexual desires onto the Negro as biological danger. #expands (0.55) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 605