{"id":58331,"date":"2019-06-11T00:16:09","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T00:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=58331"},"modified":"2019-06-11T00:16:09","modified_gmt":"2019-06-11T00:16:09","slug":"sociologists-book-highlights-experiences-of-interracial-couples-and-the-meanings-they-give-to-race-and-ethnicity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=58331","title":{"rendered":"Sociologist\u2019s Book Highlights Experiences of Interracial Couples and the Meanings They Give to Race and Ethnicity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.camden.rutgers.edu\/2019\/06\/researchers-book-highlights-experiences-of-interracial-couples-and-the-meanings-they-give-to-race-and-ethnicity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Sociologist\u2019s Book Highlights Experiences of Interracial Couples and the Meanings They Give to Race and Ethnicity<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.camden.rutgers.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rutgers-Camden News Now<\/a><br \/>\nRutgers, The State University of New Jersey<br \/>\n2019-06-10<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:thomas.mclaughlin@camden.rutgers.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Tom McLaughlin<\/strong><\/a>, Media Relations Specialist<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"450\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/news.camden.rutgers.edu\/2019\/06\/researchers-book-highlights-experiences-of-interracial-couples-and-the-meanings-they-give-to-race-and-ethnicity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/news.camden.rutgers.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/osujiportrait.jpg\" width=\"450\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small>Throughout <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=57001\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">her book<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinyereosuji.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Osuji<\/a> uses her findings to challenge the notion that society should rely on interracial couples and their multiracial children to end racism.<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>While people in American society often talk about race mixture as an antidote to the country\u2019s racial problems, interracial couples remain stigmatized, according to a new book by a Rutgers University\u2013Camden sociologist.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe idea is that, the more people who are interracially marrying, then we will have more multiracial children and magically there won\u2019t be racial inequality or racism anymore,\u201d says <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinyereosuji.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chinyere Osuji<\/a>, an assistant professor of sociology at Rutgers University\u2013Camden.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s not the case, says the Rutgers\u2013Camden researcher.<\/p>\n<p>According to Osuji, looking at interracial couples in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brazil\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brazil<\/a> \u2013 a country historically known for its racial diversity \u2013 shows how racism can coexist with race mixture. She explains that, although the country does have a substantial multiracial population, interracial couples are very much still stigmatized and race mixing is segregated by class \u2013 more likely to occur \u201cin poor communities, where brown and black people live.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>These are just a few of the illuminating findings in Osjui\u2019s groundbreaking new book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=57001\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Boundaries of Love: Interracial Love and the Meaning of Race<\/em><\/a> (NYU Press, 2019)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/news.camden.rutgers.edu\/2019\/06\/researchers-book-highlights-experiences-of-interracial-couples-and-the-meanings-they-give-to-race-and-ethnicity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researcher Chinyere Osuji\u2019s new book highlights experiences of interracial couples and the meanings that they give to race and ethnicity<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,83,21,414,8,394,20],"tags":[455,18161,16463,787,6727,29936,29937],"class_list":["post-58331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-brazil","category-latincarib","category-family","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-california","tag-chinyere-k-osuji","tag-chinyere-osuji","tag-los-angeles","tag-rio-de-janeiro","tag-rutgers-camden-news-now","tag-tom-mclaughlin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58331","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=58331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58332,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58331\/revisions\/58332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}