Southern History across the Color Line by Nell Irvin Painter

Author:Nell Irvin Painter [Painter, Nell Irvin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, United States, General, Social Science, Ethnic Studies, American, African American & Black Studies, Gender Studies
ISBN: 9781469610993
Google: rGLqCQAAQBAJ
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2013-06-01T04:09:57+00:00

One minor character in the white-supremacist mythology never appears in black fiction: the dissolute black woman who seduces white men (Wilbur Cash’s “complaisant” Negro woman), on whom white supremacists placed the blame for miscegenation. Most whites—and some blacks—agreed that black women’s morals were so deplorable that they welcomed the advances of white men. This stereotype of black women was rooted in slavery and in low class status after slavery. As Susan Brownmiller points out, women of subject or conquered populations and women who belong to groups susceptible to abuse, such as European Jews and American blacks, have long been considered especially seductive by men of more powerful groups.32 Many disparate groups of women have been set outside prevailing moral systems and thereby provided men an excuse for rape. Men have turned the vulnerability to sexual assault of groups of women into a reputation for sensuality.

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