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Multiracial Couples - Black & White Voices (Hardcover)
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Multiracial Couples - Black & White Voices (Hardcover)
Series: Understanding Families series
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In Multiracial Couples, 21 couples in which one partner is black
and the other is white talk about their experiences. The book
offers a comprehensive and insightful analysis based on extensive
quotations. It discusses the fact that these couples see their
relationships as ordinary, as well as their encounters with racism.
It also provides a pioneering exploration of how they became a
couple, their relationships with families of origin and with the
community, how partners dafine themselves as individuals and as a
couple, the ways they defend against racism, their parenting
experiences, what the partners learn from each other, and the
blessings of being an interracial couple. The authors of
Multiracial Couples provide a first-person account that will be
equal value to professionals and scholars in family studies, race
and ethnic studies, family psychology, and sociology. "Multiracial
Couples is the result of a well-conducted study of 21 black/white
couples and their experiences. It focuses strongly on the words of
the participants themselves, rather than on a psychological
interpretation of their words, and that is its great strength.
Chapters cover topics from identity to societal racism, and
although there is background material with each topic, the primary
voices are the couples'. The authors then provide an interesting,
comprehensive analysis with each chapter. These conclusions do not
attempt to sum up, but instead offer additional ideas for thought.
In essence, the authors provide a very sound framework and guidance
for the discussion without being judgmental, and they do achieve
the delicate balance necessary to the completeness of this text."
--Interracial Voice "Multiracial Couples is a detailed look at a
phenomenon that many individuals would like to see disappear. This
cogent presentation of the issue is must reading. It is
informative, written from a dispassionate but critical viewpoint,
and reader-friendly. First addressing, in the authors' words, 'the
most corrosive form of white opposition to interracial
couples--racism,' the authors subsequently guide readers like a
diary of an interracial relationship. . . . Family therapists,
scholars, and practitioners will find this an invaluable resource.
Highly recommended for all levels." --Choice "This is an unusual
and unique book. . . . The issues, problems, perceptions and
solutions have wide applicability. Therapists dealing with couple
problems in multiracial countries will find these pages fascinating
and instructive." --Kalyana Rodrigo in Sexual and Marital Therapy
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