{"id":57001,"date":"2019-05-01T22:08:57","date_gmt":"2019-05-01T22:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=57001"},"modified":"2023-06-19T01:12:17","modified_gmt":"2023-06-19T01:12:17","slug":"boundaries-of-love-interracial-marriage-and-the-meaning-of-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=57001","title":{"rendered":"Boundaries of Love: Interracial Marriage and the Meaning of Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nyupress.org\/books\/9781479878611\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>Boundaries of Love: Interracial Marriage and the Meaning of Race<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nyupress.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New York University Press<\/a><br \/>\nMay 2019<br \/>\n320 pages<br \/>\n16 black and white illustrations<br \/>\n152.40 x 228.60 mm<br \/>\nCloth ISBN: 9781479878611<br \/>\nPaper ISBN: 9781479831456<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/chinyereosuji.camden.rutgers.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Chinyere K. Osuji<\/strong><\/a>, Assistant Professor of Sociology<br \/>\n<em>Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Camden<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nyupress.org\/books\/9781479878611\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51ctkGFeBQL.jpg\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>How interracial couples in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brazil\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brazil<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">US<\/a> navigate racial boundaries<\/em><\/p>\n<p>How do people understand and navigate being married to a person of a different race? Based on individual interviews with forty-seven black-white couples in two large, multicultural cities\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Los_Angeles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Los Angeles<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rio_de_Janeiro\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rio de Janeiro<\/a>\u2014<em>Boundaries of Love<\/em> explores how partners in these relationships ultimately reproduce, negotiate, and challenge the \u201cus\u201d versus \u201cthem\u201d mentality of ethno-racial boundaries.<\/p>\n<p>By centering marriage, Chinyere Osuji reveals the family as a primary site for understanding the social construction of race. She challenges the naive but widespread belief that interracial couples and their children provide an antidote to racism in the twenty-first century, instead highlighting the complexities and contradictions of these relationships. Featuring black husbands with white wives as well as black wives with white husbands, <em>Boundaries of Love<\/em> sheds light on the role of gender in navigating life married to a person of a different color.<\/p>\n<p>Osuji compares black-white couples in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brazil\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brazil<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">United States<\/a>, the two most populous post\u2013slavery societies in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Western_Hemisphere\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Western hemisphere<\/a>. These settings, she argues, reveal the impact of contemporary race mixture on racial hierarchies and racial ideologies, both old and new.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How interracial couples in Brazil and the US navigate racial boundaries<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,11,83,21,414,8,17,394,20],"tags":[455,18161,16463,787,962,707,6727],"class_list":["post-57001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-books","category-brazil","category-latincarib","category-family","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-california","tag-chinyere-k-osuji","tag-chinyere-osuji","tag-los-angeles","tag-new-york-university-press","tag-nyu-press","tag-rio-de-janeiro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57001","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=57001"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60118,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57001\/revisions\/60118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}