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The Duty to Miscegenate<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

University of Michigan
\n152 pages
\n2013<\/p>\n

Nathaniel Adam Tobias Coleman<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Philosophy)<\/em><\/p>\n

In ‘The duty to miscegenate’, I harness John Stuart Mill’s<\/a> 19th century theory of social freedom to explain and to dismantle contemporary racialised and gendered injustice. In the first chapter\u2014Social stigmatisation: ‘a social tyranny’\u2014I argue that persons racialised-and-gendered-as-black-women were, in the past, unjustly stigmatised by legal penalties against ‘miscegenation<\/a>‘ and are still, today, unjustly stigmatised by white male avoidance of cross-racial marriage and companionship. In the second chapter\u2014Encounters that count: ‘a foundation for solid friendship’\u2014I argue that we can dismantle this stigmatisation, by engaging in regular and frequent cross-racial commensality with persons racialised-and-gendered-as-black-women. In the third chapter\u2014White right: ‘a right to avoid’\u2014I argue that, although we have a right to avoid commensal encounters with others, we do not have a right to avoid persons we racialise as black. On the contrary, we have a duty to encounter them, on terms of equality and intimacy.<\/p>\n

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