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Beyond Loving - Intimate Racework in Lesbian, Gay, and Straight Interracial Relationships (Hardcover)
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Beyond Loving - Intimate Racework in Lesbian, Gay, and Straight Interracial Relationships (Hardcover)
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Intimacy between blacks and whites in the United States is a
crucial point of inquiry because this color line has historically
been the most rigorously surveilled and restricted. Because of this
history, social scientists use interracial intimacy as a barometer
of the social distance between racial groups, and view growing
numbers of interracial couples as evidence of racial progress. But
are interracial couples really able to carve out a 'raceless'
intimate sphere? Or are interracial relationships microcosms of
broader-level racial hierarchies? In this book, Amy Steinbugler
challenges the widespread assumption that interracial intimacy
represents the ultimate erasure of racial differences. She finds
that while interracial partners may be more racially progressive,
they are not necessarily enlightened subjects who have managed to
get beyond race. Instead, for many partners interracial intimacy
represents not the end, but the beginning of a sustained process of
negotiating racial differences. Using qualitative interviews and
ethnographic case studies with both heterosexual and same-sex
black/white couples, Steinbugler explores the social practices
through which interracial partners respond to and negotiate racial
difference in their relationship, what she calls "racework." Even
though these processes unfolded in very similar ways for every
interracial partner she interviewed, racial identities and
attitudes remained generally stable and issues of power and
privilege crept into even the most ordinary situations. Intimacy,
Steinbugler finds, does not necessarily erode racial differences.
In addition, the interviews with same-sex interracial couples-a
topic on which there is very little research-allow Steinbulger to
examine for the first time how everyday racial practices are shaped
by sexuality and gender. Our racial present is a complex mix of
enduring inequalities and new cultural messages. Beyond Loving
adeptly examines how interracial couples experience race in their
everyday lives and how they engage one another to address
fundamental questions about the significance of race in
contemporary life.
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