Reproduction, interracial

There is no interracial sexual relationship in its quest for a sanitized circuit of interracial reproduction, multiracialism elides interracial sexuality, a conceptual quarantine promoted in moral register. Sexual practices are barred from consideration, desire as an element of the interracial relation is disavowed, and the complex interplay of race and sexuality is disciplined. 

From the vantage that locates the spurious issues of interracial sexual reproduction as the ultimate targets of antimiscegenation, multiracial... 

The branching narrative of resistance offered above does not do justice to the vexed discursive relations between race and sexuality in the politics of multiracialism. The depathologizing of the interracial relationship is attempted retroactively through the health of multiracial people, restricting the debate about antimiscegenation to the terrain of reproduction, most often within the institution of marriage, rather than of sexuality irreducible to breeding and the dynamics of the two-parent nuclear family. In this... 

Interracial sexuality is a necessary condition for multiracialism— there may be interracial sexual relations without multiracial offspring but no multiracial offspring without interracial sexual relations (new reproductive technologies, including surrogate pregnancy, in vitro fertilization, and the current experiments with human cloning present ramifications too complex to broach here, but they do not escape the field of sexuality... 

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