Against dating interracial

Description:History[ edit ] United States of America[ edit ] After the abolition of slavery in , the white Americans showed an increasing fear of racial mixture. There was a widely held belief that uncontrollable lust threatens the purity of the nation. This increased white anxiety about interracial sex, and has been described through Montesquieu 's climatic theory in his book the Spirit of the Laws , which explains how people from different climates have different temperaments, "The inhabitants of warm countries are, like old men, timorous; the people in cold countries are, like young men, brave. As the men were not used to the extremely hot climate they misinterpreted the women's lack of clothing for vulgarity. This created tension, as if white men were having sex with black women because they were more lustful, this meant black men would lust after white women in the same way, this threatened the white male dominance that was apparent at the time, increasing the fear of interracial interactions. There are a few potential reasons as to why such strong ideas on interracial sex developed.

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