{"id":17849,"date":"2011-11-12T01:17:37","date_gmt":"2011-11-12T01:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=17849"},"modified":"2011-11-12T01:17:37","modified_gmt":"2011-11-12T01:17:37","slug":"the-stain-of-white-liaisons-memories-and-white-men-as-relatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=17849","title":{"rendered":"The Stain of White: Liaisons, Memories, and White Men as Relatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1177\/1097184X06287764\" target=\"_blank\">The Stain of White: Liaisons, Memories, and White Men as Relatives<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jmm.sagepub.com\" target=\"_blank\">Men and Masculinities<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/jmm.sagepub.com\/content\/9\/2.toc\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 9, Number 2<\/a> (October 2006)<br \/>\npages 131-151<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1177\/1097184X06287764\" target=\"_blank\">10.1177\/1097184X06287764<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jnu.ac.in\/FacultyStaff\/ShowProfile.asp?SendUserName=jabraham\" target=\"_blank\">Janaki Abraham<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor Women Studies<br \/>\n<em>Jawaharlal Neru University<\/em><\/p>\n<p>During British colonial rule some matrilineal <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ezhava\" target=\"_blank\">Thiyya<\/a> women in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Malabar_(Northern_Kerala)\" target=\"_blank\">North Kerala<\/a>, India, had liaisons with British men. While the response of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Caste_system_in_India\" target=\"_blank\">caste<\/a> (here, a Backward caste) to these liaisons shifted over time, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century many women who had liaisons and their families were excommunicated. A \u201cwhite connection\u201d became a stain and kinship with the white man was denied or shrouded. This article looks at the ways in which both the liaisons and the denial of the white man as father or relative were located within practices of matrilineal kinship. Furthermore, this article seeks to understand how these liaisons are remembered today and how the presence of the white man as a relative is layered over by processes of forgetting and remembering.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/jmm.sagepub.com\/content\/9\/2\/131.full.pdf+html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Stain of White: Liaisons, Memories, and White Men as Relatives Men and Masculinities Volume 9, Number 2 (October 2006) pages 131-151 DOI: 10.1177\/1097184X06287764 Janaki Abraham, Assistant Professor Women Studies Jawaharlal Neru University During British colonial rule some matrilineal Thiyya women in North Kerala, India, had liaisons with British men. While the response of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,414,459,8,394],"tags":[1351,8214,8213],"class_list":["post-17849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-family","category-history","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","tag-india","tag-janaki-abraham","tag-men-and-masculinities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}