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Boundaries of love : interracial marriage and the meaning of race /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Osuji, Chinyere K. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, [2019]
Subjects:
Interracial marriage > United States > Case studies.
Interracial marriage > Brazil > Case studies.
Racially mixed families > United States > Case studies.
Racially mixed families > Brazil > Case studies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : race-mixing and ethnoracial boundaries
  • Preferences and the romantic career
  • Boundaries of blackness : groupness and linked fate
  • Boundaries of whiteness : flexibility and shifting meanings
  • Black, white, mixed or biracial : identifying the children
  • "A fly in the buttermilk": black spouses in white families
  • Policing the boundary : interacting with strangers in public
  • Conclusion : "Is interracial love saving America?"