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Author Childs, Erica Chito, 1971-

Title Navigating interracial borders : black-white couples and their social worlds / Erica Chito Childs.

Publication Info. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2005]
©2005

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Description 1 online resource (x, 248 pages)
text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction : the interracial canary -- Loving across the border : through the lens of black-white couples -- Constructing racial boundaries and white communities -- Crossing racial boundaries and black communities -- Families and the color line : multiracial problems for black and white families -- Racialized spaces : college life in black and white -- Black-white.com : surfing the interracial Internet -- Listening to the interracial canary.
Summary Annotation Is love color-blind, or at least becoming increasingly so? Today's popular rhetoric and evidence of more interracial couples than ever might suggest that it is. But is it the idea of racially mixed relationships that we are growing to accept or is it the reality? What is the actual experience of individuals in these partnerships as they navigate their way through public spheres and intermingle in small, close-knit communities? In Navigating Interracial Borders, Erica Chito Childs explores the social worlds of black-white interracial couples and examines the ways that collective attitudes shape private relationships. Drawing on personal accounts, in-depth interviews, focus group responses, and cultural analysis of media sources, she provides compelling evidence that sizable opposition still exists toward black-white unions. Disapproval is merely being expressed in more subtle, color-blind terms. Childs reveals that frequently the same individuals who attest in surveys that they approve of interracial dating will also list various reasons why they and their families wouldn't, shouldn't, and couldn't marry someone of another race. Even college students, who are heralded as racially tolerant and open-minded, do not view interracial couples as acceptable when those partnerships move beyond the point of casual dating. Popular films, Internet images, and pornography also continue to reinforce the idea that sexual relations between blacks and whites are deviant. Well-researched, candidly written, and enriched with personal narratives, Navigating Interracial Borders offers important new insights into the still fraught racial hierarchies of contemporary society in the United States.
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Subject Interracial marriage -- United States.
Interracial marriage.
United States.
Interracial marriage -- United States -- Public opinion.
Public opinion.
Interracial dating -- United States.
Interracial dating.
Race awareness -- United States.
Race awareness.
Racism -- United States.
Racism.
Race relations in motion pictures.
Race relations in motion pictures.
United States -- Race relations.
Race relations.
United States -- Race relations.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Subject Racism.
Other Form: Print version: Childs, Erica Chito, 1971- Navigating interracial borders. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2005 0813535859 0813535867 (DLC) 2004021377 (OCoLC)56517442
ISBN 0813537576 (electronic book)
9780813537573 (electronic book)
0813535859
9780813535852
0813535867
9780813535869
1280462868
9781280462863