lactification
English
Etymology
See lactify (“to make or become milky”). Coined in sociological sense by Frantz Fanon.
Noun
lactification (uncountable)
- The whitening of a black race.
- 1995, Lillian S. Robinson, Modern women writers (volume 3, page 66)
- However, in stark contrast with the lactification principle so denigrated by Fanon, she decides to abort and come home. She will eventually become involved with a local Black trade unionist.
- 2003, Wendy Goolcharan-Kumeta, My mother, my country (page 111)
- He condemns the latter for advocating in her novels what he terms as the lactification principle: the coloured woman's rejection of her self and her assumption of the white man's identity through a relationship, generally sexual […]
- 1995, Lillian S. Robinson, Modern women writers (volume 3, page 66)