Of Interracial Relationships In Frantz Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks

In Frantz Fanon’s couple chapters, “The Woman of Color and the White Man” and “The Man of Color and the White Woman”, within his novel Black Skin, White Masks, the reader is introduced to the sexual and psychological relations between interracial couples. Fanon analysis these themes through the use of the assumed autobiographical works of authors such as Mayotte Capécia, Abdoulaye Sadji, and René Maran, in order to demonstrate the theory that a person’s race determines their real reasons for entering interracial relations. This theory goes on to claim that the underlying goal of interracial relations for both the woman and man of color is to “grasp white civilization and dignity and make them mine.” Fanon goes on, mostly in the third chapter,

He informs the reader that customary in Martinique “to dream of a form of salvation that consists of magically turning white.” Therefore, Fanon claims that both the Negress and the mulatto use the white man to achieve this dream at all costs, as it is “essential to avoid falling back into the pit of niggerhood.” He acknowledges, however, that the driving force for their desire is mostly financial. Mayotte Capécia’s Je Suis Martiniquaise provides him with an example of a Negress in relations with a white man. Capécia’s novel proves Fanon’s claims, in that she loved André for his white features, which was key to his power, wealth, and privilege. We are then introduced to Nini and Dédée, of Abdoulaye Sadji’s story, Nini, who represent two mulattos: the former and her rejection of the black man, and the latter and her rejoice in being chosen by a white man. Fanon sums these three women up as desperate for any hope of a relationship with a white man, as they see it as their only form of salvation from the savageness, poverty, and the indecency that characterizes the