I think you found the statement you were looking for in wiki but didn't bother to go read the actual article. Note from the article abstract:
Acceptance by the dominant group reveals the current standing of racial groups in the U.S. hierarchy, as well as the possibility for assimilation. However, few researchers have addressed the gendered nature of racial preferences by whites. We examine whites’ exclusion of blacks, Latinos, Asians, Middle Easterners, East Indians and Native Americans as possible dates, using a sample of profiles collected from an internet dating website. We find that white men are more willing than white women to date non-whites in general, yet, with the exception of their top two preferences for dates, whites and Latinos, the racial hierarchies of males and females differ. Among daters with stated racial preferences, white men are more likely to exclude blacks as possible dates, while white women are more likely to exclude Asians. We argue that exclusion relates to racialized images of masculinity and femininity, and shapes dating and marriage outcomes, and thus minority groups’ possibilities for full social incorporation.
From that same article:
- Currently, only about 4% of white Americans marry non-whites
- intermarriage data cannot reveal the preferences driving interracial pairings
- We focus on gender differences in the willingness of the dominant group, whites, to date outside of one’s racial group, and argue that such willingness is the product of a gendered racialized hierarchy in which men and women of specific racial groups are differentially accepted by whites as dating partners
- Marital assimilation with the dominant group is an important step in the process of full societal inclusion. Over time, Italian, Irish, Polish and other European immigrants intermarried with, and ultimately came to be seen as, whites
- Some argue that the process in which the boundaries of ‘‘whiteness” stretched to include European immigrant groups may be occurring for Asians and Latinos. Blacks, however, remain at the greatest social distance from whites, and racism towards blacks may be more entrenched and pernicious than for Asians and Latinos
- white women are more likely than white men to state a white racial preference and report more disapproval from family and friends than white males when they date nonwhites. White males are also more likely to date nonwhites than their female counterparts. In speed dating experiments, women have also been shown to place more emphasis on selecting a same-race partner than men. These findings may reflect the fact that white men are not as constrained as women in their dating choices, because, in a historically patriarchal society, men’s status is not as associated with their partner. These findings may also be due to gender differences in dating goals: women may more often be looking for a marriage partner, while men may more often be seeking a casual encounter.
- Data:
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9.5% of 519 white women who have a racial preference do not include Black men in their consideration of intimate partners
6.2% of 459 white men who have a racial preference do not include Black women in their consideration of intimate partners
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Here we see that about 3% of white men and 8% of white women prefer Black partners
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And here's that 7x comparison... 0.49% of white men prefer races of partners that include Black and 3.31% of white women prefer the same.
- Race is one of the main selection criteria for white internet daters—whites express racial preferences even more commonly than religious or educational preferences
So, the article linked from the wiki quotes you included support what is being said about racialization - but nothing about fetishization. And 7 times more than what? 11 times more than what? When only giving comparisons, but not giving the amount being compared, it obfuscates the data and truth of the matter -- that is a miniscule number, either way. I could have 1 penny and you could have 1 dollar - me simply saying you are 100x richer than I am does not give the full picture unless people also know what we have.
And we can dive deeper into the causes, symptoms and the like if you want to go there, but you're not going to like the conversation. But as a hint, we can use the movie "Birth of a Nation" to then discuss why certain segments of white men - particularly those with power - projected an image upon Black men and women as being more aggressive, hypersexualized, less human, etc and how this has fed into a cycle of this fetishization of which the topic of the thread has mentioned.
Also, we can then continue down the line of racist stereotypes of why white men were more likely to exclude Black women than white women excluding Black men incorporating what we learn. Then, we can go down the model minority stereotype as well as the subservient stereotype of Asian women and why white men were less likely to exclude Asian women over white women excluding Asian men based upon both the same subservient stereotype as well as the "small penis" myth.
And we can discuss how society pressures white women to choose white men over other partners, based upon race, for acceptability in our social structures.
Also, from a previous post I shared:
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But remember, again, who promoted these stereotypes for decades upon centuries... It wasn't white women. It was white men. Particularly white men who controlled land and politics. So when
Geigi says "white men" - she's not generalizing nor is she putting people in a box. She's stating what can be empirically shown through research and historical documents - legal, cultural, and otherwise.