Regulating Interracialized Intimacies

Perspectives from Europe and Beyond
Herausgeber: De Hart, Betty; Zambelli, Elena

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 314
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. März 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm
• ISBN-13: 9781032583778
• ISBN-10: 1032583770
• Artikelnr.: 72212285

Autorenporträt

Elena Zambelli is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Maynooth University. Her research interests pivot on the commodification and regulation of sex and intimacy within and across national and racialized borders. Her publications include the research monograph Sexscapes of Pleasure: Women, Sexuality and the Whore Stigma in Italy. Betty de Hart is Professor of Transnational Families and Migration Law at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. She studies the national, European and international rules affecting transnational families, its ideologies and the impact of law on the everyday lives of transnational families, with a particular interest in the genealogy of race thinking.

Inhaltsangabe

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 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