Interracial sexuality

To highlight the relationship between sexuality and racial politics in general and interracial sexuality and multiracial identity in particular in hopes of reinvigorating debates that remain burdened by a set of archaic assumptions. 

But if it is an understatement to claim that white supremacy and antiblackness are obsessed with interracial sexuality, then how can obsession function as an instance of understatement What, precisely, is obsession beyond obsession To obsess is already to be excessively concerned, to be... 

Antiracist politics is challenged to devise responses to the obsessive structure of racialization if it is to mount a more effective intervention in the post-civil rights era. Liberal models of multicultural unity-in-diversity and conservative prescriptions for colorblindness have proved themselves to be as damaging to movements for radical social change as they are intractable as elements of contemporary political discourse (West 1994). Critics on the Left seem unsatisfied with the bleakness of these options yet at a loss for an alternative analytic framework. This is especially true with regard to matters of interracial sexuality ... 

Chapter 3, There Is No (Interracial) Sexual Relationship, builds... 

What, then, is the distorted image of interracial sexual encounter to which black community finds itself enthralled, so long after the dawning of a new, post-Louwg era To address this question, we can look to several recent historical accounts published in the field of multiracial studies. These new multiracial histories, as I will call them, reiterate strikingly similar arguments whose net effect is to contravene pessimism. More specifically. 

Like Stephens and Kennedy before him, Talty takes as his primary objective the refutation of a troubling black feminist critique, and Davis again serves as the representative foil. Better said, it is the disposition of the analysis that dismays Talty, what are taken to be overtones of pessimism toward the emotional capacities of whites in general and white men in particular. In his treatment of interracial sexuality in the antebellum United States, he writes. 

To this end, it is not quite correct to say that multiracial discourse is interested in the valorization of interracial sexuality for its own sake, regardless of context and consequences. Such would seem to be the case considering the gentrification of sexual coercion under slavery through which Stephens s euphemistic love. . . under uneven power relations or Kennedy s Orwellian consent-in-confinement is outdone only by Talty s... 

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