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# On the black woman's side, they can be accused of being "sellouts" in dating white men (traditionally Black men get the brunt of the backlash, but it can happen to women too). In Western society, black women are usually expected to hold the family down, and only be attracted to black men. If her lover is wealthy on top of being white, expect accusations that she's a GoldDigger as well.

See also MeLoveYouLongTime for a similar trope involving Asian women and white men, and the GenderFlip version WhereDaWhiteWomenAt. ButNotTooBlack can play into this as well.

* Averted in ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' Danny's brief relationship with Valerie Gray raises no eyebrows because Danny's white and Valerie's black, rather the fact that Danny's Danny Phantom and Valerie is also a ghost hunter who thinks he's the enemy.

* Averted in ''WesternAnimation/ Danny Phantom'' Danny's brief relationship with Valerie Gray raises no eyebrows because Danny's white and Valerie's black, rather the fact that Danny's Danny Phantom and Valerie is also a ghost hunter who thinks he's the enemy.

* Averted in ''WesternAnimation/Danny Phantom'' Danny's brief relationship with Valerie Gray raises no eyebrows because Danny's white and Valerie's black, rather the fact that Danny's Danny Phantom and Valerie is also a ghost hunter who thinks he's the enemy.

* Averted in ''Danny Phantom'' Danny's brief relationship with Valerie Gray raises no eyebrows because Danny's white and Valerie's black, rather the fact that Danny's Danny Phantom and Valerie is also a ghost hunter who thinks he's the enemy.

* Lampshaded in ''WesternAnimation/TheClevelandShow'' when Rollo (during a black supremacist phase) asks his sister why she's going out with a white guy, she answers with "Do I look like a white girl? Or an Asian girl, or a..."

# On the black woman's side, they can be accused of being "sellouts" in dating white men (traditionally Black men get the brunt of the backlash, but it can happen to women too). In Western society, black women are usually expected to hold the family down, and only be attracted to black men. If her lover is wealthy on top of being white, expect implications that she's a GoldDigger as well.

* ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir'': Will's aunt marries a "[[UnusualEuphemism tall]]" man in a VerySpecialEpisode.

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

* ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir'': Will's aunt marries a white man in a VerySpecialEpisode.

# On the black woman's side, they can be accused of being "sellouts" in dating white men (traditionally Black men get the brunt of the backlash, but it can happen to women too). In Western society, black women are usually expected to hold the family down, and only be attracted to black men.

* PlayedForLaughs in episode 7 of The MisadventuresOfAwkwardBlackGirl. When J and [[TokenWhite White Jay]] walk into a restaurant all of the customers stare at them with a look of disapproval, including [[HypocriticalHumor a black man and white girl couple]].

1. On the black woman's side, they can be accused of being "sellouts" in dating white men (traditionally Black men get the brunt of the backlash, but it can happen to women too). In Western society, black women are usually expected to hold the family down, and only be attracted to black men.

2. On the white man's side, they can also expect derision. Due to the very narrow standards of beauty, black women aren't typically seen as attractive or desirable partners (though there's a strange dichotomy as black women also carry the hypersexual nympho stereotype) so a white man can be seen as "trading down" or strange for not wanting to date a white woman. Also, there can be a RaceFetish element that dates back to the 1600s slave trade with the rape of many African slaves.

2. On the white man's side, they can also expected widespread derision. Due to the very narrow standards of beauty, black women aren't typically seen as attractive or desirable partners (though there's a strange dichotomy as black women also carry the hypersexual nympho stereotype) so a white man can be seen as "trading down" or strange for not wanting to date a white woman. Also, there can be a RaceFetish element that dates back to the 1600s slave trade with the rape of many African slaves.

So instead of being kept apart only to want each more like black men and white men, white men and black women don't have the history of being "denied" each other but still carries the "forbidden fruit" element.

* The movie ''Film/LakeviewTerrace'', deals with an interracial couple of the combination described by this trope, who get terrorized by their black neighbor.

* The 2005 remake of ''GuessWhosComingToDinner'' (titled ''Guess Who'') reversed the roles with a young black woman surprising her family by marrying a white man.

* In ''{{House}}'', an interracial couple faced opposition from the (white) male's father, and they interpreted this as the dad being a racist jerk. He was, sort of, just not in the way they thought. [[spoiler:He didn't want him to date this ''particular'' black girl. House deduces that they share a rare genetic illness, meaning that they're actually [[BrotherSisterIncest half-siblings]], resulting from an affair the father had with the woman's mother. It's implied that the relationship doesn't survive this revelation.]]

* ''TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir'': Will's aunt marries a white man in a VerySpecialEpisode.

* Inverted by Patrick Stewart, who played {{Othello}} as a white man, with the rest of the cast being black.

* Lampshaded in ''TheClevelandShow'' when Rollo (during a black supremacist phase) asks his sister why she's going out with a white guy, she answers with "Do I look like a white girl? Or an Asian girl, or a..."

* The 2005 remake of ''GuessWhosComingToDinner'' (titled ''Guess Who'') reversed the roles with a young black woman surprising her family by marrying a white man. It was much less well-received, probably because it preferred to play up stereotypes than have any meaningful commentary.
*** It was also barely a re-make, since the original film was dead serious and [[{{Anvilicious}}made almost entirely out of anvils]] ([[SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped but with good reason]]), whereas the 2005 version (aside from everything else that was different about it) was a comedy.