{"id":2662,"date":"2009-10-31T15:16:08","date_gmt":"2009-10-31T15:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=2662"},"modified":"2013-04-29T01:16:20","modified_gmt":"2013-04-29T01:16:20","slug":"interracial-intimacies-sex-marriage-identity-and-adoption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=2662","title":{"rendered":"Interracial Intimacies: Sex, Marriage, Identity, and Adoption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/acmart\/catalog\/display.pperl?isbn=9780375702648\" target=\"_blank\">Interracial Intimacies: Sex, Marriage, Identity, and Adoption<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Vintage an imprint of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/acmart\" target=\"_blank\">Random House, Inc. Academic Resources<\/a><br \/>\n2003<br \/>\n688 pages<br \/>\nPaperback ISBN: 978-0-375-70264-8 (0-375-70264-4)<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.harvard.edu\/faculty\/directory\/index.html?id=36\" target=\"_blank\">Randall Kennedy<\/a><\/strong>, Michael R. Klein Professor of Law<br \/>\n<em>Harvard Law School<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/acmart\/catalog\/display.pperl?isbn=9780375702648\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/images\/dyn\/cover\/?source=9780375702648&amp;width=200\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From the author of <em>Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word<\/em> and <em>Race, Crime, and the Law<\/em>\u2014a tour de force about the controversial issue of personal interracial intimacy as it exists within ever-changing American social mores and within the rule of law.<\/p>\n<p>Fears of transgressive interracial relationships, informed over the centuries by ugly racial biases and fantasies, still linger in American society today. This brilliant study\u2014ranging from plantation days to the present\u2014explores the historical, sociological, legal, and moral issues that continue to feed and complicate that fear.<\/p>\n<p>In chapters filled with provocative and cleanly stated logic and enhanced by intriguing historical anecdotes, Randall Kennedy tackles such subjects as the presence of sex in racial politics and of race in sexual politics, the prominence of legal institutions in defining racial distinction and policing racial boundaries, the imagined and real pleasures that have attended interracial intimacy, and the competing arguments around interracial romance, sex, and family life throughout American history.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Table of Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Introduction<\/li>\n<li>One &#8211; In the Age of Slavery<\/li>\n<li>Two &#8211; From Reconstruction to Guess Who\u2019s Coming to Dinner?<\/li>\n<li>Three &#8211; From Black-Power Backlash to the New Amalgamationism<\/li>\n<li>Four &#8211; Race, Racism, and Sexual Coercion<\/li>\n<li>Five &#8211; The Enforcement of Antimiscegenation Laws<\/li>\n<li>Six &#8211; Fighting Antimiscegenation Laws<\/li>\n<li>Seven &#8211; Racial Passing<\/li>\n<li>Eight &#8211; Passing the the Schuyler Family<\/li>\n<li>Nine &#8211; Racial Conflict and the Parenting of Children: A Survey of Competing Approaches<\/li>\n<li>Ten &#8211; The Tragedy of Race Marching in Black and White<\/li>\n<li>Eleven &#8211; White Parents and the Black Children in Adoptive Families<\/li>\n<li>Twelve &#8211; Race, Children, and Custody Battles: The Special Status of Native Americans<\/li>\n<li>Afterword<\/li>\n<li>Notes<\/li>\n<li>Bibliography<\/li>\n<li>Acknowledgments<\/li>\n<li>Index<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read an excerpt of the book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/acmart\/catalog\/display.pperl?isbn=9780375702648&amp;view=excerpt\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interracial Intimacies: Sex, Marriage, Identity, and Adoption Vintage an imprint of Random House, Inc. Academic Resources 2003 688 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-0-375-70264-8 (0-375-70264-4) Randall Kennedy, Michael R. Klein Professor of Law Harvard Law School From the author of Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word and Race, Crime, and the Law\u2014a tour de force [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,414,459,125,1467,8,17,6462,6940,394,20],"tags":[687,114,69,724,862,861],"class_list":["post-2662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-family","category-history","category-identitydevelopment","category-law","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-passing-2","category-slavery","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-adoption","tag-amalgamation","tag-anti-miscegenation-laws","tag-randall-kennedy","tag-randall-l-kennedy","tag-random-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2662","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=2662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}