White woman for marriage, mulatto woman for fucking, Negro woman for work.

With reference to Brazil, as an old saying has it: “White woman for marriage, mulatto woman for fucking, Negro woman for work,” a saying in which, alongside the social convention of the superiority of the white woman and the inferiority of the black, is to be discerned a sexual preference for the mulatto.

Com relação ao Brasil, que o diga o ditado: “Branca para casar, mulata para foder, negra para trabalhar”; ditado em que se sente, ao lado do convencionalismo social da superioridade da mulher branca e da inferioridade da preta, a preferência sexual pela mulata.

Gilberto Freyre, The Masters and the Slaves: A Study in the Development of Brazilian Civilization, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987). 13-14. http://www.ucpress.edu/op.php?isbn=9780520056657.

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