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41 " It is impossible to say how many innocent black men in the colonies that became Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), Australia, and the United States were jailed or killed on the pretext of having victimized a white "
― Ruby Hamad , White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color
42 " Black historian Deborah Gray White explains that the Jezebel archetype was constructed as the mirror opposite to the ideal Victorian-era lady of the house. Godless and promiscuous, “she did not lead men and children to God; piety was foreign to her. She saw no advantage in prudery, indeed domesticity paled in importance before matters of the flesh. "
43 " Historian Liz Conor notes the hypocrisy of the sudden flurry to “protect” Aboriginal women from alleged abuse from Japanese pearlers given there had been “decades of unheeded reports of violence toward Aboriginal women by white pearling masters.” Whereas any accusations made against white men had long been dismissed through the rhetoric of “black velvet” that regarded Aboriginal women as incapable of virtue and chastity, "
44 " Dissatisfied with black male sexual partners, she eagerly sought out white men to copulate with; she was always there for the taking. So driven by sexual urges was she that raping a black woman was considered impossible, both legally because of her status as property and morally because there was no way she could not have wanted it. "
45 " The rape and exploitation of enslaved black women was not just rampant, it was endemic. The writings of former slaves such Harriet Jacobs, as well those of sympathetic white women like abolitionist Sarah Grimké, paint a picture of black girls in their early teens getting routinely bribed with presents and “favors,” such as promises of better treatment, for agreeing to sex with white plantation workers or relatives of the owner. "
46 " In India, antipathy toward darker skin is so rife that a recent study found that 70 percent of both male and female respondents wanted to date a fair-skinned partner. "
47 " The abuse of black women served at least three functions: it terrorized the black population in order to reinforce white domination, it provided a source of continuous labor, and it was a sexual outlet that white men took advantage of in order to maintain the illusion of the moral superiority of white society in an era of supposed sexual chastity. "
48 " There were consensual relationships and transactions, though these were often not honored by the white men. “From the time white men invaded our shores, Indigenous women’s sexuality was … represented as something to be exploited and mythologized,” Aileen Moreton-Robinson writes "
49 " Violence against Aboriginal women was not prosecuted: in a scenario that may sound all too familiar to many women today, one newspaper reported that the rape, torture, and murder of an Aboriginal woman in the late 1800s was not prosecuted because the effects would be too detrimental … to the lives of the four white men responsible. "
50 " Prior to 9/11, Arab American comedian Dean Obeidallah did not see his Palestinian heritage as pertinent to his life; he felt and was treated as “white.” Following the attacks, however, his Arab heritage became an issue for others if not for him, prompting him to perform a stand-up routine on how he “went to bed a white guy” the night before 9/11 and “woke up an Arab” the morning after. "
51 " I’d be lying if I said I knew how to reconcile all this. I’m well aware of the racism and colorism in Arab societies, of the Filipina and other Asian maids mistreated by their rich employers in the Gulf states who regard them more as indentured servants than hired help. It did not escape my notice on a trip back to Lebanon that the workers cleaning the windows "
52 " The only countries to have entirely escaped some form of European control are Japan, Korea, Thailand, and Liberia. "
53 " Unlike enslaved black women, Native women were not represented as lewd wantons, but they were nonetheless sexualized and stereotyped through the Princess Pocahontas myth. More than just a Disney princess, Pocahontas was a real woman in history whose story has been appropriated almost beyond all recognition. "
54 " Arab is not even a racial or ethnic category; rather, it denotes a supposed shared culture and language. But the dialects and cultures vary significantly across the region, making the word Arab itself, as an identifier, a testament to the inadequacy of our racial literacy "
55 " The Princess Pocahontas myth represents a passive sex symbol, the “Good Indian” who unites the white man and the Native, the civilized and the savage, the past and the future. But—and this is a big but—through her attraction to white men she also affirms the superiority of white society over her own, and so functions as tacit permission for whites to conquer, assimilate, and destroy Native culture. Even her “princess” status was a fabrication "
56 " What does it mean to be an Arab in a region where persecution is often based not on race or ethnicity but on religious sect? What does it mean to be an Arab when your lands were colonized first by the Arabians, then by the Ottomans, then by the Europeans, and finally, along with the rest of the world, by capitalism itself? "
57 " I mean, she is a cartoon, we are real people, we don’t fucking talk to raccoons and trees!” Angel joked, exasperated. What’s no joke, however, are the real consequences this archetype has had. The sexualizing and animalizing of Native women through the perpetuation of the Princess Pocahontas myth is occurring in a context where violence against Native women is increasing. "
58 " Kristina told me that the organization sought to dictate the needs of the community by the founder's "white, privileged standards" rather than to "empower them and see them as true partners to develop and sustain programs geared toward their needs. "
59 " The lingering legacy of Princess Pocahontas—the willing exotic princess who chooses intrepid and strapping white suitors and white society over her static, dying culture and community with its unattractive, war-minded men—is a false construction that conveniently gives consent for the eradication of her people. "
60 " The quintessential China Doll is submissive, eager to please, obedient, and permanently pleasant, and lives for no reason other than to make her white lover happy. Nowhere has she been embodied quite so roundly as in the most-performed opera in the United States today, Puccini’s classic Madama Butterfly, based on a one-act play that was in turn based on an 1887 smash-hit semiautobiographical French "