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Racing Romance: Love, Power, and Desire among Asian American/White Couples
Kumiko Nemoto
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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 tensionsùa result of race, class, and genderùthat Asian Americans and whites experience.
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 tensionsùa result of race, class, and genderùthat 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 ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Rutgers University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
New Brunswick NJ, United States
ISBN
9780813545332
SKU
V9780813545332
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About Kumiko Nemoto
Kumiko Nemoto is an assistant professor in the department of sociology at Western Kentucky University.
Reviews for Racing Romance: Love, Power, and Desire among Asian American/White Couples
A provocative, insightful, and richly-detailed study. This book should be required reading for anyone studying race and romance in contemporary society.
Erica Chito Childs
author of Navigating Interracial Borders: Black-White Couples and Their Socia
A provocative, insightful, and richly-detailed study. This book should be required reading for anyone studying race and romance in contemporary society.
Erica ... Read more
Erica Chito Childs
author of Navigating Interracial Borders: Black-White Couples and Their Socia
A provocative, insightful, and richly-detailed study. This book should be required reading for anyone studying race and romance in contemporary society.
Erica ... Read more