pearance, and black women are found wanting because they do not meet the currently universally valued European standard of beauty. as the study puts it, "Earnings potential as a standard of mate selection is simply more colorblind than is physical attractiveness, which, in American society, continues to display a Eurocentric bias." The study concluded that marital options have diminished for black women: "If current patterns prevail, 30% of the black women born in the 1950s will not marry."
Black women, traditionally the primary caretakers of the family, often see interracial marriage as a threat to the race (Monroe, 1990, p. 18).
To follow the logic of perceptions of sexual aberration is to illustrate an important point about manifest black homosexuality. If in the prevailing culture
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