Whites feared legally sanctioned racial mixing of either sex

Evidence

The horrific nature of violent attacks on black manhood has caused historiographers and sociologists to assume that whites feared unions between white women and black men most. In actuality, they feared legally sanctioned racial mixing on the part of the sexes of either group, but as black men were more likely to seek legal sanction through marriage of their relationships with white women, they received the brunt of attacks by white supremacists. — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 192

Categorization

• XREF: 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; White male-black female marriage would threaten white patriarchal rule unlike the reverse — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 199; White men project their repressed sexual desires onto the Negro as biological danger. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 605 (+1 more)

Related

• White male-black female marriage would threaten white patriarchal rule unlike the reverse (similarity 0.87)
• White men were encouraged to exploit black women but not marry them (similarity 0.85)
• White women feared black women’s perceived immorality threatened their own status (similarity 0.83)
• Black men’s inter-racial choices reveal sexist double standards against black women. (similarity 0.82)
• Anti-miscegenation laws failed, so white men deployed two false myths (similarity 0.81)
• Warnings against white men function as psychological control over black women’s freedom. (similarity 0.81)
• White men created the race-sex hierarchy that black men accept and support. (similarity 0.81)
• The black rapist myth responded to marriage fears, not real rape (similarity 0.81)
• Negrophobic women’s fear arises from imagination, not real danger (similarity 0.79)
• Colonial marriage attitudes shifted from handicapping to requiring white wives (similarity 0.79)
• White women allied with white men on shared racism against Black women (similarity 0.79)
• White men project their repressed sexual desires onto the Negro as biological danger. (similarity 0.79)
• White women’s racism targeted black women more intensely than black men (similarity 0.79)
• Colonial sexual asymmetry makes white male promiscuity ordinary but black male-white female union romantic (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• White male-black female marriage would threaten white patriarchal rule unlike the reverse #expands (0.80) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 199
• White women feared black women’s perceived immorality threatened their own status #expands (0.70) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 384
• White men project their repressed sexual desires onto the Negro as biological danger. #expands (0.70) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 605