Regulating Interracialized Intimacies by Zambelli, Elena; de Hart, Betty;

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This book explores the role of the law in the social construction of ‘race’ and ‘mixture’ within and beyond the borders of Europe, focusing on the regulation of ‘interracialized’ intimacies and the ways in which the governments of white-majority societies have attempted to prevent intimate relationships across the colour line.

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This book explores the role of the law in the social construction of ‘race’ and ‘mixture’ within and beyond the borders of Europe. It focuses on ‘interracialized’ intimacies, that is, the intimate relations of subjects ascribed and/or perceived to belong to different ‘races’. The role of the state in defining boundaries between ‘us’ and ‘them’ becomes particularly clear in their regulation. Moving across different times, places and political formations – including the US slavery regime, European colonial empires and metropolises – the book delves deep into how the governments of white-supremacist and white-majority societies have consistently attempted to prevent, discourage or obstruct intimate relationships crossing the colour line. This occurred directly, through prohibitions and anti-miscegenation laws, or indirectly, through citizenship laws, marriage licenses, social care, prostitution laws, housing policies, policing practices and other means. The book further shows that the legacy of these highly gendered and racialized regulations continues to reverberate today, informing norms, hierarchies and perceptions about whose intimacies count as legitimate and ought to be facilitated and whose are deemed suspect and requiring state surveillance. The contributions also shed light on the individuals, couples and families who were targeted by state regulations and how they challenged and disturbed state categorizations and regulations.

Highly interdisciplinary in scope, with contributions by pioneering United States and European scholars in this field, this book will be a fundamental read for scholars, researchers and students interested in tracing the genealogy of racial thinking in Europe and beyond, and its enduring operativity.

“Regulating Interracialized Intimacies is a multi-faceted, rare and rich contribution addressing racialized intimacies in a variety of settings, including Europe. Finally, our gaze is turned toward the continent which has historically been so maddeningly oblivious to its foundational role in inventing race!” 
Gloria Wekker, Emeritus Professor, Gender Studies, Utrecht University

 “This book engages in a critical examination of global understandings of “race” and racial identities and global regulation of interracial intimacies. It impressively cuts across the divisions between colonial, metropolitan, and postcolonial contexts, centering in on European contexts and showing the centrality of the regulation of interracial intimacies throughout.”
Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Dean and Ryan Roth Gallo Professor of Law, Boston University

“Illuminating the relationships between nation, law and race via interracial relationships, Regulating Interracialized Intimacies is a valuable interdisciplinary resource not just for scholars of ‘mixed race studies’, but also those who study race through comparative frameworks. Appropriately for the subject matter, it connects ideas and practices across time, space, Empires and legal systems.”
Steve Garner, Associate Professor in Sociology, Swansea University

“This stellar collection of essays by prominent international scholars originally contributes to the study on regulations of love and mixed relationships. Covering an astonishing wide spectrum, both historical and geographical, the volume challenges the study of race, gender and intersectionality in colonial, postcolonial and contemporary contexts in Europe and beyond.”
Sandra Ponzanesi, Professor of Media, Gender and Postcolonial Studies, Utrecht University

Tartalomjegyzék:

Introduction - Beyond Marriage Prohibitions: New Directions in The Study of Regulating Relationships Across and Beyond the Colour Line  Part I: Prohibition  1. Of Coercion, Consent, And Concubines: The Regulation and Litigation of Interracial Sex and Marriage under Slavery in the U.S. South  2. Regulating Sexual Mixing in the Italian Colonies of the Horn of Africa: A Legal History Perspective  3. Dutch Politics of Intimacy in Colony and Metropole and their Afterlives: Reflections on a Shifting Political Economy of Intimacy  4. ‘What Does our Love Have to Do with Politics?’ Regulation of Interracialized Couples in East Germany  Part II: Legal-spatial segregation  5. Regulating ‘Mixture’ while Building a Settler-Colonial City: The Case of Benghazi  6. Policing “Zones of Degeneracy”: (Post-)Colonial Migrants and Interracialized Sex and Intimacies in France (1954-1979)  Part III: Regulation of consequences  7. A “Marriage Between Natives”: Race, Religion, Citizenship, and Customary Marriage in Late Colonial West Africa  8. Rationalizing Racial Mixing in French West Africa: From African and European to African and Caribbean Encounters with Empire  9. Gender, Citizenship, and Regulating Mixed Intimacies in West Germany  10. Mixed-Race Children, Eugenics and Labels of Defect and Handicap in Britain, 1920s-50s  11. ‘The Obvious Dangers of this Relationships’: Interracialised Relationships between Underage Swiss Women and Italian Men and the Implementation of the Swiss Child Protection Laws (1960-1980)  Part IV: Migration law  12. Regulating Interracialised Intimacies in 1950s-60s Britain through Deportation and Immigration Policies  13. Borders, Intimacy and Colonial Dispossession  Part V: Shadow of law  14. Improper Couples, Suspicious Mobilities: Sexuality as Currency and Stigma in Black-White Couples’ Everyday Lives in Europe  15. ‘How could I have been so Blind?’ Love, Money, and Victimhood in Transnational Interracialized Relationships between Dutch Women and Men from MENA Countries  16. Afterword - Love, Domination, and All Things in Between