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Interracial Intimacy - The Regulation of Race and Romance (Paperback, New edition)
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Interracial Intimacy - The Regulation of Race and Romance (Paperback, New edition)
Series: mersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith
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After decades of struggle to promote racial equality and ensure
personal freedom, interracial intimacy remains one of the least
understood areas of race relations in the United States. Few people
realize that as late as the 1960s state legislatures were free to
punish individuals who either had sec with or married persons
outside their racial and ethnic groups. The first history of the
legal regulation of interracial relationships, Rachel R. Moran's
groundbreaking book also grapples with the consequences of that
history.
Crossing disciplinary lines, Moran looks in depth at interracial
intimacy in America from colonial times to the present. She traces
the evolution of bans on intermarriage and explains why blacks and
Asians faced harsh penalties while Native Americans and Latinos did
not. She provides fresh insight into how these laws served complex
purposes, why they remained on the books for so long, and what led
to their eventual demise. As Moran demonstrates, the United States
Supreme Court could not declare statutes barring intermarriage
unconstitutional until the civil rights movement, coupled with the
sexual revolution, has transformed prevailing views about race,
sex, and marriage.
Although the Supreme Court established a principle of color
blindness in the regulation of intimacy when it struck down bans on
intermarriage, centuries of segregation in sex, marriage, and
family life are not easily undone. Today high rates of same-race
marriage persist, adoption across the color line generates intese
controversy, and census takers struggle to classify multiracial
citizens. With candor and compassion, Moran confronts such emerging
issues in her account of the ongoing struggleto make freedom and
equality a reality in private life. "Interracial Intimacy"--with
its exploration of the complicated interplay of race and romance,
the challenge of forging family ties across the color line, and the
gowing visibility of multiracial Americans--reveals that even
today, interracial relationships remain fragile arrangements poised
between a history of pervasive segregation and a hope of personal
transcendence.
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