Racing Romance

About the AuthorKumiko Nemoto is an assistant professor in the department of sociology at Western Kentucky University.

出版者:Rutgers University Press

作者:Nemoto, Kumiko

页数:208

出版时间:2009-8

价格:$ 27.06

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780813545332

图书标签:生活Sociology

Despite being far from the norm, interracial relationships are more popular than ever. Racing Romance sheds special light on the bonds between whites and Asian Americans, an important topic that has not garnered well-deserved attention until now. Incorporating life-history narratives and interviews with those currently or previously involved with an interracial partner, Kumiko Nemoto addresses the contradictions and tensionsaa result of race, class, and genderathat Asian Americans and whites experience.Similar to black/white relationships, stereotypes have long played crucial roles in Asian American/white encounters. Partners grapple with media representations of Asian women as submissive or hypersexual and Asian men are often portrayed as weak laborers or powerful martial artists. Racing Romance reveals how allegedly progressive interracial relationships remain firmly shaped by the logic of patriarchy and gender inherent to the ideal of marriage, family, and nation in America, even as this ideal is juxtaposed with discourses of multiculturalism and color blindness.

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"How do gender, race, ethnicity, and class form the interracial relationship, and how do nation, family, and multiculturalism constitute the pattern of interracial marriage?"

"How do gender, race, ethnicity, and class form the interracial relationship, and how do nation, family, and multiculturalism constitute the pattern of interracial marriage?"

"How do gender, race, ethnicity, and class form the interracial relationship, and how do nation, family, and multiculturalism constitute the pattern of interracial marriage?"

"How do gender, race, ethnicity, and class form the interracial relationship, and how do nation, family, and multiculturalism constitute the pattern of interracial marriage?"

"How do gender, race, ethnicity, and class form the interracial relationship, and how do nation, family, and multiculturalism constitute the pattern of interracial marriage?"