Interracial Intimacies

Sex, Marriage, Identity, and Adoption

Randall Kennedy

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English

Vintage Books
15 February 2004

Romance; Society & Social Sciences; Cultural studies; Social discrimination

Sex, Marriage, Identity, and Adoption

With the same piercing intelligence as the bestselling Say it Loud!, Interracial Intimacies hits a nerve at the center of American society- race relations and our most intimate ties to each other.

""The best book written on the subject, an exhaustive source of deep, rich scholarship and surefooted brilliant analysis.""-Seattle Times

Analyzing the tremendous changes in the history of America's racial dynamics, Randall Kennedy challenges us to examine how prejudices and biases still fuel fears and inform our sexual, marital, and family choices. He takes us from the injustices of the slave era up to present-day battles over race matching adoption policies, which seek to pair children with adults of the same race. He tackles such subjects as the presence of sex in racial politics, the historic role of legal institutions in policing racial boundaries, and the real and imagined pleasures that have attended interracial intimacy. A bracing, much-needed look at the way we have lived in the past, Interracial Intimacies is also a hopeful book, offering a potent vision of our future as a multiracial democracy.

By: Randall Kennedy
Imprint: Vintage Books
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: Vintage Books ed.
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 132mm, Spine: 38mm
Weight: 577g
ISBN: 9780375702648
ISBN 10: 0375702644
Pages: 688
Publication Date: 15 February 2004
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Randall Kennedy is the author of Nigger and Race, Crime, and the Law. He received his undergraduate degree from Princeton and his law degree from Yale. A Rhodes Scholar, he served as a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. He is a professor at Harvard Law School and lives in Dedham, Massachusetts.

Reviews for Interracial Intimacies: Sex, Marriage, Identity, and Adoption

The best book written on the subject, an exhaustive source of deep, rich scholarship and surefooted brilliant analysis. <i>Seattle Times We urgently need Kennedy, his courage and his convictions. . . . For some time [he] has been a member of that small coterie of our most lucid big thinkers about race. <i>Washington Post [A] vibrant, wieghty examination. . . . Kennedy writes eloquently about the violence, sadness, and warped legacy of the past, but then goes looking for intimacy anyway instances in which some mutual feeling may have arisen across the racial divide. <i>Los Angles Times As definitive as it is defiant. . . . One of the most important books on race in recent memory. <i>Columbus Dispatch