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Title: ‘Race has always been more than just race’: Gender, sexuality and the negotiation of race in interracial relationships
Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis
Publication Year: 2007
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Abstract: This research examines how same-sex and heterosexual Black/White interracial couples negotiate racial difference in their relationship. It builds upon recent scholarship on interracial couples and families as sites where racial meanings and identities are negotiated by introducing sexuality as a critical mediating force. Black/White heterosexual relationships have historically been stringently surveilled and policed because they have threatened to blur racial lines of genealogy whereby property and White privilege are transmitted. Yet, scholarship on interracial intimacy has failed to problematize heterosexuality itself or to examine how racial difference is negotiated outside of a heterosexual context, in lesbian and gay relationships. Using in-depth interviews with each member of 40 interracial couples and ethnographic fieldwork with four couples, I respond to these theoretical and empirical gaps by investigating the following questions: How does sexuality influence the manner in which interracial couples interpret and negotiate their racial difference? How does sexual identity mediate the influence of interracial intimacy on racial identities? How do . . .
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Authors: Steinbugler, Amy, C
Institution: Temple University
Department: Economics & Political Science
Advisor: Ericksen, Julia A.
Degree: PhD
Publisher Location: Pennsylvania
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Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Other, Race and Ethnicity
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