Love Under the Skin
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African descent
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American Blacks Born
American South
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Biracial Children
Black Eve
Black Partners
Black White Couples
Black White Marriage
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comparative sociology
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cross-cultural partnership dynamics
cultural authenticity
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French Interviewees
French Respondents
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gendered socialization
Interracial Couples
Interracial Marriage
interracial marriages
kinship networks
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Metropolitan France
Metropolitan French
Multiracial Friends
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public spaces
qualitative fieldwork
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racial identity formation
sexual ethics
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White Female Respondents
White Nationalist Organizations
White Partners
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Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780367371029
- Weight: 550g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 05 May 2020
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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The rising visibility of interracial couples calls for increased attention to the overlapping of culture and race, in safe spaces centered on small-group dynamics, or in public spaces where peoples of African descent are under the public gaze. This comparative study seeks to de-center the U.S-centered viewpoint common to much of the literature on black/white relations. Based on nine years of fieldwork in the American South and in France, Coquet shows many unexpected parallels between the two societies. Gendered perceptions of cultural authenticity and sexual ethics are a guiding thread, being inseparable from the historical and political contingencies (re-)defining acceptable forms of dating, marrying, and parenting among cis-heterosexual couples in both societies. Her account emphasizes resilience and agency as couples seek to protect themselves and their children, while their extended or symbolic kinship networks help white partners acknowledge the existence of racial privilege.
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
