{"id":8214,"date":"2011-10-07T02:29:26","date_gmt":"2011-10-07T02:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=8214"},"modified":"2013-09-15T16:49:27","modified_gmt":"2013-09-15T16:49:27","slug":"white-women-and-men-of-colour-miscegenation-fears-in-britain-after-the-great-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=8214","title":{"rendered":"White Women and Men of Colour: Miscegenation Fears in Britain after the Great War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1111\/j.0953-5233.2005.00371.x\" target=\"_blank\">White Women and Men of Colour: Miscegenation Fears in Britain after the Great War<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/journal\/10.1111\/(ISSN)1468-0424\" target=\"_blank\">Gender &amp; History<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/gend.2005.17.issue-1\/issuetoc\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 17, Issue 1<\/a> (April 2005)<br \/>\npages 29\u201361<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1111\/j.0953-5233.2005.00371.x\" target=\"_blank\">10.1111\/j.0953-5233.2005.00371.x<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.londonmet.ac.uk\/research-units\/iset\/staff\/bland.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">Lucy Bland<\/a><\/strong>, Professor of Women\u2019s Studies and Sociology<br \/>\n<em>London Metropolitan University<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This article examines <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=450\" target=\"_blank\">miscegenation<\/a> fears in Britain in the period after <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/World_War_I\" target=\"_blank\">World War I<\/a>, noting three dominant discourses: that miscegenation leads inevitably to violence between white and black men (focusing on the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.liverpool-unipress.co.uk\/html\/publication.asp?idProduct=3893\" target=\"_blank\"> 1919 race riots<\/a>), that these relationships involve sexual immorality (analysing the 1920 \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jstor.org\/pss\/1905831\" target=\"_blank\">Black Horror on the Rhine<\/a>\u2019, a case involving a white woman, a Chinese man and drugs and a trial of a white woman for killing her Egyptian husband) and that miscegenation has \u2018disastrous\u2019 procreative consequences. It is suggested that miscegenation stood as one British boundary marker, separating the nationally acceptable and the nationally threatening. <strong>The parties concerned\u2013the \u2018primitive\u2019 man of colour, the white woman of a \u2018low type\u2019 and the \u2018misfit\u2019 offspring\u2013were each pathologised in terms of their deviant sexuality. Yet interracial relationships did not decrease, quite the contrary.<\/strong> The move in Britain towards a more racially mixed community began in the years after the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/World_War_I\" target=\"_blank\">Great War<\/a>, when certain white women made choices against the norms of respectable femininity.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/j.0953-5233.2005.00371.x\/pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White Women and Men of Colour: Miscegenation Fears in Britain after the Great War Gender &amp; History Volume 17, Issue 1 (April 2005) pages 29\u201361 DOI: 10.1111\/j.0953-5233.2005.00371.x Lucy Bland, Professor of Women\u2019s Studies and Sociology London Metropolitan University This article examines miscegenation fears in Britain in the period after World War I, noting three dominant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,459,8,394,10,25],"tags":[2957,3470],"class_list":["post-8214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-history","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-uk","category-women","tag-gender-history","tag-lucy-bland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8214","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=8214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}