Love Under the Skin - Interracial Marriages in the American South and France

List of contents

Introduction: What’s Love Got to Do with It? Part I. Historical Backgrounds "Out of a past that's rooted in shame": How Interracial Marriage Became a Stigma Chapter 1. Criminalizing Interracial Attraction to Enshrine White Property in America Chapter 2. Religion and Gender in the Construction of Black Otherness in Metropolitan France Part II. Comparative Sociological Analysis "Good fences make good neighbors": Internalizing and Contesting the White Racial Frame int eh Realm of Intimacy Today Chapter 3. Inscribing Race and Gender in a "Colorblind" Era: How Partners are Socialized Against Dating "Out" Chapter 4. Current Repercussions of the Representations of Black/White Couples in France and Alabama: Is it About "Selling Out" or Becoming Kin? Chapter 5. Interracial Fusion? Maintaining a Partnership and Starting a Family with more than one Cultural Model Chapter 6. Fantasizing the Child: How Successfully do Partners Negotiate Racial Otherness when Reflecting on Parenthood and Parenting?

About the author

Cécile Coquet-Mokoko is a Professor of African American Studies, US Cultural History, and Gender Studies at the University of Versailles-St Quentin (France). She taught African American Studies for three semesters at the University of Alabama in 2009-2010. Her publications focus on African American religious traditions and oratory, and race and gender relations in the USA

Summary

This comparative study seeks to de-center the U.S-centered viewpoint common to much of the literature on Black/White relations. The fieldwork was carried out between 2009 and 2018 among 43 couples in two public universities in Alabama and metropolitan France. The emic approach shows many unexpected parallels between the two societies.

Product details

• Authors: Cecile Coquet-Mokoko, Cécile Coquet-Mokoko
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2020
• EAN: 9780367371029
• ISBN: 978-0-367-37102-9
• No. of pages: 200
• Series: New Critical Viewpoints on Society
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; Ethnic Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, France, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Sociology: family & relationships, Sociology: family and relationships, Central Southern States, US South