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The [[Gender Inverted Trope|gender inverted]] version of this trope is [[Black Gal On White Guy Drama]].

 

 

== Comic Books ==

* The infamous 1975 [[Blaxploitation]] movie ''Mandingo'', which is about a horny slaveowner's wife (named Blanche, FFS) seducing a [[Scary Black Man]] on the plantation. It ends with a black baby being born and the white owner murdering both his wife and his slave in revenge.

* Mitch Mullany's "The Breaks" includes a scene reminiscent of ''[[I'm Gonna Git You Sucka (Film)|I'm Gonna Git You Sucka]]'' when the main character, Derrick, attends a spoken word performance. After a dreadlocked black man recites an angry Afrocentric poem, the hostess says, "Thank you very much, Stokely Ungawa, and your lovely wife, Betsy..." at which point the camera cuts to the same poet, embracing a very [[White Anglo Saxon Protestant|WASPy]] looking blonde.

* An early example is Harry Belafonte and Joan Fontaine in the 1957 film ''Island in the Sun''. {{spoiler|Unsurprising for the time, they don't end up together}}

* Deliberately averted in the movie ''Hitch.'' Originally, Cameron Diaz was supposed to play Hitch's love interest. However, when Will Smith got the role, they decided that this trope might come out to play. However, they also didn't want to cast a black actress for fear that people would assume that it was an African-American movie like Tyler Perry's films. They finally decided on Cuban-American Eva Mendez (who has been cast because of this racial gray-area more than once.)

{{quote| '''Leonard''': "Where are all the white women at?"<br />

'''Jeff''': No Leonard! There are no white women here!" }}

* Since their groundbreaking roles in 1992's soap ''Por estas Calles'', Venezuelan actors Gledys Ibarra and Franklin Virguez tends to end in roles with this kind of relationship, given that they are two of the most prominent black actors in a country where most of the acting pool is fair-skinned (and Ms. Ibarra herself [[But Not Too Black|has lighter skin and green eyes]]). They are helped by the fact that Venezuela is more accepting of interracial couples.

* Dep. Jones on ''[[Reno 911 (TV)|Reno 911]]'' is obsessed with white Dep. Clementine Johnson, even though black Dep. Williams won't stop throwing herself at him.

* [[Will Smith]] played half of such a couple on a [[Very Special Episode]] of ''[[Sesame Street (TV)|Sesame Street]]'' dealing with racism.

* Dr. Elizabeth Corday and Dr. Peter Benton on ''[[ER (TV)|ER]]'', until the actor playing Benton got upset with the situation and the producers broke them up and set him up with a new, black character.

* Deliberately averted in [[The Sixties]] spy series ''[[I Spy]]'', at the insistence of [[Bill Cosby]].

* In ''[[The 4400]]'', Richard Tyler was abducted from 1951 during the Korean War, where his secret relationship with a white woman had gotten him beaten up by his fellow officers. In the present, his relationship with fellow abductee Lily, the [[Identical Grandson|Identical Granddaughter]] of that woman, is seen as totally mundane... well, apart from their superpowered [[Fetus Terrible]].

== Theatre ==

* ''[[Othello (Theatre)|Othello]]'': Italian Desdemona falls for the "moor" Othello. It has been argued that in Shakespeare's time "moor" didn't mean Black necessarily, and through history he was often played as Arabic.

"Even now, now, very now, an '''old black ram''' / [[Unusual Euphemism|Is tupping]] '''your white ewe!"''' }}

* Aaron the Moor in ''[[Titus Andronicus (Theatre)|Titus Andronicus]]'' has an affair with Tamora, queen of the Goths and empress of Rome, [[Chocolate Baby|and their child turns out to be black.]]

* ''[[The Merchant of Venice]]'' has two examples:

** One of Portia's wealthy suitors is the Prince of Morocco, who begs her to "mislike me not for my complexion". When he loses the [[Engagement Challenge]], she is quite glad: "Let all of his complexion choose me so."

* [[Hairspray|''In my ivory tower, life was just a Hostess snack/ But now I've tasted chocolate, and I'm never going back!'']]

* [[The Sixties|1960s]] hippy musical ''[[Hair (Theatre)|Hair]]'' invokes both the Black Man/White Woman and Black Woman/White Man version of this trope with the song "Black Boys/White Boys". The movie adaptation takes it farther, adding a [[Ho Yay]] component with the Army induction examiners.

** For the record, the part with the white "airhead" girl saying she met Harold Ford, Jr. at the Playboy mansion was only one short clip that was part of a ''much longer'' ad that had people ironically showing support for Ford in spite (or because) of various other political positions or perceived personality flaws that Republicans saw fit to use against him. Furthermore, '''Harold Ford, Jr. actually did have a white girlfriend and at the time was known to visit the Playboy mansion on occasion''', so despite its political incorrectness, that particular part of the ad was actually an example of [[Truth in Television]].

* According to some bozos, [http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/34288353/ns/sports-golf/ Tiger Woods]. You've gotta love how the article sees nothing at all screwed up about his ''actual infidelity''. And since Woods is a quarter-black, quarter white, and half-Thai, ''someone'' is going to be offended no matter who he has sex with.

* [[Rent (Theatre)|Taye Diggs and Idina Menzel]] got ''hate mail'' for being [[Romance On the Set|married]]. ''In [[The Nineties]]''. Even today, Diggs is criticized by members of the Black community for having a white wife.

** And she's [[Matzo Fever|Jewish]], so most of the people threatening them probably hate her anyway.

* Eleanor Roosevelt visited Britain during [[WW 2]], and spent some time talking to American troops. One consistent complaint she heard from white American Southern soldiers was that British women ''didn't'' treat black American soldiers like untouchable potential rapists. (I.e., how any "virtuous Southern woman" of the 1940s was supposed to treat a black man.) The British women were instead being just as nice to the black soldiers as to the white soldiers. Oh, horror, imagine that!

** Beyond just the romantic possibilities, this happened in both world wars: African-American troops in Europe found conditions far less harsh than at home. Less racism, less cruelty, less government-sanctioned segregation--in WWI many African-American soldiers deserted to stay in France after the war. After WWII, Germany had the best reputation among black soldiers.

** The Nazis also used the trope in propaganda encouraging men from occupied countries to enlist in the German Army, threatening them with a flood of amorous African-American soldiers unless they helped defend Western Europe.

** Actually, in the instance of the occupation of the Ruhr by colonial troops, it wasn't just the Nazis - a fair chunk of the German press ran cartoons [http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/images/00042717_Justice_Ruhrgebiet.jpg like] [http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/2012356745.08.LZZZZZZZ.jpg these] [http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dHxoxt07rwY/Ti2Xdk_yxPI/AAAAAAAAAGc/jBXw2yJT6z4/s1600/images.jpeg ones].

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