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Format: xi, 279 Seiten.

ISBN: 978-1-4798-7861-1 , 978-1-4798-3145-6

Content: "Osuji's "Boundaries of Love" explores the issues of race and interracial marriage"...

Note: Includes bibliographical references and index

Language: English

Subjects: Sociology

Keywords: Partnerschaft ; Familie ; Interkulturalität

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Format: 1 online resource : , 16 black and white illustrations

ISBN: 9781479855490

Content: How interracial couples in Brazil and the US navigate racial boundaries How do people understand and navigate being married to a person of a different race? Based on individual interviews with forty-seven black-white couples in two large, multicultural cities—Los Angeles and Rio de Janeiro—Boundaries of Love explores how partners in these relationships ultimately reproduce, negotiate, and challenge the “us” versus “them” mentality of ethno-racial boundaries.By centering marriage, Chinyere Osuji reveals the family as a primary site for understanding the social construction of race. She challenges the naive but widespread belief that interracial couples and their children provide an antidote to racism in the twenty-first century, instead highlighting the complexities and contradictions of these relationships. Featuring black husbands with white wives as well as black wives with white husbands, Boundaries of Love sheds light on the role of gender in navigating life married to a person of a different color.Osuji compares black-white couples in Brazil and the United States, the two most populous post–slavery societies in the Western hemisphere. These settings, she argues, reveal the impact of contemporary race mixture on racial hierarchies and racial ideologies, both old and new.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Preface -- , Introduction. Race Mixing and Ethnoracial Boundaries -- , 1. Preferences and the Romantic Career -- , 2. Boundaries of Blackness -- , 3. Boundaries of Whiteness -- , 4. Black, White, Mixed or Biracial -- , 5. “A Fly in the Buttermilk” -- , 6. Policing the Boundary -- , Conclusion. “Can Interracial Love Save Us?” -- , Acknowledgments -- , Appendix A. Tables -- , Appendix B. Methods and Fieldwork -- , Notes -- , References -- , Index -- , About the Author , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.18574/9781479855490

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781479855490

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781479855490

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Format: 1 online resource.

ISBN: 9781479855490 (ebook) :

Series Statement: NYU scholarship online

Content: How do interracial couples negotiate ethnoracial boundaries? 'Boundaries of Love' takes a novel approach to answering this question by examining how contemporary black-white couples make sense of ethnoracial boundaries in their lives. Based on over 100 qualitative interviews with husbands and wives in black-white couples in Los Angeles and Rio de Janeiro, this work unpacks the cultural repertoires of race-mixing in these two post-Atlantic slavery societies and shows how different approaches to race mixture - celebrated in Brazil versus illegal for much of U.S. history - influence the meanings that contemporary interracial couples give to their lives and social interactions.

Note: Previously issued in print: 2019.

Additional Edition: Print version : ISBN 9781479878611

Language: English

URL: NYU scholarship online