lactification

English

Etymology

See lactify (“to make or become milky”). Coined in sociological sense by Frantz Fanon.

Noun

lactification (uncountable)

1. 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 […]