Meanings
- uncountableThe whitening of a black race.
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.
1995, Lillian S. Robinson, Modern women writers, volume 3, page 661 more example
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[…]
2003, Wendy Goolcharan-Kumeta, My mother, my country, page 111
Origin
See lactify (“to make or become milky”). Coined in sociological sense by Frantz Fanon.
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