White writers fabricated black women’s unchastity to justify racial segregation.

Evidence

The alleged unchastity of Negro women in general was analyzed in an article in the Atlantic. The practice was attributed to their lack of concern for sexual purity and to the free use that white men made of them. The author added that the sexual immorality of Negro women was a deterrent to loose morals between white men and white women. — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 176

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: White men mocked black women who most resembled white ladies. — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 174; White women allied with white men on shared racism against Black women — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 119; White women’s linguistic erasure of black women served their own political interests — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 416 (+2 more)

Related

• White men mocked black women who most resembled white ladies. (similarity 0.86)
• White male sexual power over slaves redirected white women’s anger onto black women (similarity 0.83)
• The jezebel stereotype blamed Black women for white male sexual assault (similarity 0.83)
• White sexual assault of black women was excused by blaming the victims’ morals. (similarity 0.83)
• White women’s racism targeted black women more intensely than black men (similarity 0.83)
• The women-and-blacks analogy erased black women by equating women with whites (similarity 0.82)
• White women feared black women’s perceived immorality threatened their own status (similarity 0.82)
• Labeling black women as sexual savages enabled their rapes by denying their humanity. (similarity 0.82)
• White feminists dismissed black women’s attention to racial difference (similarity 0.81)
• White women allied with white men on shared racism against Black women (similarity 0.81)
• White women’s linguistic erasure of black women served their own political interests (similarity 0.81)
• White women, not white men, were slavery’s most direct beneficiaries (similarity 0.80)
• White mistresses often punished rather than protected sexually exploited slave women (similarity 0.80)
• White men created the race-sex hierarchy that black men accept and support. (similarity 0.80)
• Enslaved women were no more sexually liberated than white women. (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• The jezebel stereotype blamed Black women for white male sexual assault #expands (0.70) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 99
• White male sexual power over slaves redirected white women’s anger onto black women #complicates (0.50) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 451
• White women allied with white men on shared racism against Black women #corroborates (0.40) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 119
• White women’s linguistic erasure of black women served their own political interests #expands (0.40) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 416