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[[Where Da White Women At?|Black Man/White Woman couples]], as portrayed in the media, are going to face taboo and historical connotations, whether played for comedy or drama. This trope has greater historical connotations; these can be seen in antebellum and slavery films such as ''Queen'' and ''[[Roots]]''.

White men and black women don't have the history of being "denied" each other but still carry the "forbidden fruit" element.

 

 

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== [[Film]] ==

* A scene deleted from ''[[Death Proof]]'' explains that Stuntman Mike only kills women he is sexually attracted to (Jungle Julia in the first group?) Later, the [[Author Appeal|feet]] he plays with belong to Abby, played by [[Rosario Dawson]], ''who herself'' is half black, half Puerto Rican.

* In [[Road Trip]], Kyle has his sexual debut with a black [[BBW]] at an afrocentric college. At the end of the movie, they are shown to be going steady.

 

* ''[[To Kill a Mockingbird]]'': Dolphus Raymond is a white man who has children with a black woman - although he has to pretend to be the town drunk so that the town can deal with it. Note that, as the trope description says, a white man fathering children with a black woman was unremarkable (although this was less the case as slavery shrank further into the past and near-total segregation of the races became the ideal scenario as far as genteel white society was concerned). What the other white residents couldn't forgive him for was actually acknowledging his children and living with his family in the black part of town.

* In one of the ''Roll Of Thunder, Hear My Cry'' novels, the protagonist (a young black girl) gets a little bit of [[Ship Tease]] with a white boy in town, culminating in the boy giving her a picture. The girl's father flips out and destroys the picture when he finds it, telling her it will put the whole family in danger if anyone finds out. Sadly this happened to be true, given that the novels were set in the South during Jim Crow.

 

* The [[MTV]] telefilm ''Love Song'' starring singer Monica combines this and the [[Uptown Girl]] trope.

* In a [[Very Special Episode]] of ''[[Moesha]]'' titled "Reunion", Moesha meets up with an old white friend (played by Andrew Keegan) and they really hit it off. Her father has a problem with the potential relationship and Moesha is accused of being "too good for the hood." In the end, they decide not to get together.

* Not exactly a "lust," but in an episode of ''[[WKRP in Cincinnati]]'' Venus is interviewed by a reporter from a black magazine, who it turns out is white (and played by Tim Ried's former comedy partner Tom Dreeson). They commiserate over being the only person of X color in an otherwise all-Y company, including wanting to ask out some female coworkers but being gunshy because of how the women might react due to their race.

* ''[[Boy Meets World]]'' had Shawn and Angela, treated the entire time as being meant for one another.

* In one episode of the [[Candid Camera Prank|hidden camera]] show ''[[What Would You Do]]'', two actors pose as a white male/black female couple in a bar. A black couple, also actors, come up to them and criticize their relationship, accusing the black woman of being insecure for dating a white man. The onlookers are not amused.

* [[Based on a True Story|Reenacted]] on ''I Married A Mobster,'' where despite no previous attraction to White men, [[Sassy Black Woman|Dion]] falls for Italian-American Angelo Nicosia, [[Captain Obvious|who's a mob hitman]] and [[Your Cheating Heart|married]] with the latter case obviously being the bigger issue before and after his divorce as they marry and initially live the good life with a [[But Not Too Black|daughter, Gia]] until he's caught, leaving them in debt, [[Earn Your Happy Ending|but they stay together and she still waits for him to come out of jail as a reformed man.]]

 

* [[The Rolling Stones]]' "Brown Sugar" is probably the [[Trope Codifier]].

* [[Cree Summer]]'s song [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EkamHQpuWM Curious White Boy] examines the how white men sometimes oversexualize black women.

* Chester French's "Black Girls" song is a [[Race Fetish]] declaration of love for black women. However, the video (too NSFW to link here) [[Girl-On-Girl Is Hot|depicts a lesbian tryst between a white woman and a black woman.]]

 

* The whole storyline of the musical "Memphis" revolves around a white man falling in love with a black singer. Being set in a period racial segregation, this is played for [[Tear Jerker|drama]].

* ''[[Show Boat]]''. White man is married to a mixed race woman who is considered black by the "one drop rule," so white man pricks woman with a pin and swallows a drop of her blood, making him black too [[Exact Words|by that standard]].

 

* [[Played for Laughs]] in episode 7 of ''The [[Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl]]''. When J and [[Token White|White Jay]] walk into a restaurant all of the customers stare at them with a look of disapproval, including [[Hypocritical Humor|a black man and white girl couple]].

 

 

* [[wikipedia:Mildred and Richard Loving|Mildred and Richard Loving]], an interracial couple whose marriage was annulled when they moved to Virginia, ultimately leading to a [[wikipedia:Loving v. Virginia|Supreme Court case]] that ended laws against interracial marriage in the United States.

 

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[[Category:Love Tropes]]

[[Category:Index of Exact Trope Titles]]

[[Category:Stereotype]]

[[Category:Race Tropes]]