Listening to the interracial Canary: Contemporary views on interracial relationships among blacks and whites

Fordham Law Review

Volumn 76, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 2771-2786

  Chito, Erica ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

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References (89)

1. 388 U.S. 1 (1967).
2. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (Columbia Pictures 1967).
3. Guess Who (Columbia Pictures 2005); Something New (Gramercy Pictures 2006).
4. Randall Kennedy, Interracial Intimacies: Sex, Marriage, Identity, and Adoption 36-37 (2003).
5. Associated Press, After 40 Years, Interracial Marriage Flourishing, MSNBC.com, Apr. 15, 2007, http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18090277/ .
6. See, e.g., Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Racism Without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States (2003); Leslie G. Carr, "Color-Blind" Racism (1997);
7. Ellis Cose, Color-Blind: Seeing Beyond Race in a Race-Obsessed World (1997);
8. Joe R. Feagin, Racist America: Roots, Current Realities, and Future Reparations (2000);
9. Ruth Frankenberg, White Women, Race Matters: The Social Construction of Whiteness (1993);
10. Toni Morrison, Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (1992).
11. Associated Press, supra note 5.
12. Erica Chito Childs, Navigating Interracial Borders: Black-White Couples and Their Social Worlds 6 (2005); see Lani Guinier & Gerald Torres, The Miner's Canary: Enlisting Race, Resisting Power, Transforming Democracy 2-3 (2003).
13. See, e.g., James H. Gadberry & Richard A. Dodder, Educational Homogamy in Interracial Marriages: An Update, 8 J. Soc. Behav. & Personality 155 (1993);
14. Tim B. Heaton & Cardell K. Jacobson, Intergroup Marriage: An Examination of Opportunity Structures, 70 Soc. Inquiry 30 (2000);
15. Matthijs Kalmijn, Trends in Black/White Intermarriage, 72 Soc. Forces 119 (1993);
16. Robert K. Merton, Intermarriage and the Social Structure: Fact and Theory, 4 Psychiatry 361 (1941).
17. For an excellent discussion of multiracial families, see Heather M. Dalmage, Tripping on the Color-Line: Black-White Multiracial Families in a Racially Divided World (2000) (interviewing multiracial families and discussing issues such as transracial adoption, census categories, and housing segregation).
18. See, e.g., Kennedy, supra note 4; Rachel F. Moran, Interracial Intimacy: The Regulation of Race and Romance (2001);
19. Renee Romano, Race-Mixing: Black-White Marriage in Postwar America (2003).
20. I interviewed black-white couples as well as white and black communities at colleges and churches, and conducted cultural analyses of media and popular culture from 1999 to 2002, which is described in great detail in Chito Childs, supra note 8, at 11-17, 206-10; see also Erica Chito Childs, Fade to Black and White: Interracial Images in America (forthcoming 2008) (discussing the research methods used).
21. Adalberto Aguirre, Jr., Academic Storytelling: A Critical Race Theory Story of Affirmative Action, 43 Soc. Persp. 319, 320 (2000).
22. Chito Childs, supra note 8, at 49-53.
23. Id. at 49.
24. Id.
25. See Philomena Essed, Understanding Everyday Racism: An Interdisciplinary Theory 63-64 (1991); see also Chito Childs, supra note 8, at 73.
26. Chito Childs, supra note 8, at 50-53, 146-51.
27. Id. at 51.
28. Id. at 146.
29. Id. at 73-74, 110-13, 146-51.
30. Id. at 73, 117.
31. See generally Erving Goffman, Forms of Talk (1981).
32. Chito Childs, supra note 8, at 139-68.
33. Id. at 147.
34. Id. at 51-55.
35. Id. at 44-74, 129-38, 145-51.
36. Id. at 50.
37. Id.
38. Id. at 50-51.
39. Id. at 112
40. Id.
41. Lawrence D. Bobo & Ryan A. Smith, From Jim Crow to Laissez-Faire Racism: The Transformation of Racial Attitudes, in Beyond Pluralism: The Conception of Groups and Group Identities in America 182, 186 (Wendy Katkin, Ned Landsman & Andrea Tyree eds., 1998).
42. See id.
43. Herbert Blumer, Race Prejudice as a Sense of Group Position, 1 Pac. Soc. Rev. 3 (1958).
44. Bobo & Smith, supra note 33, at 210.
45. Feagin, supra note 6, at 122.
46. See generally Patricia J. Williams, Seeing a Color-Blind Future: The Paradox of Race (1997).
47. See Chito Childs, supra note 8, at 77-82.
48. Confidential interview with twenty-something black Baptist woman, in New York, N.Y. (May 2000).
49. Chito Childs, supra note 8, at 80.
50. Id.
51. Id. at 81.
52. Id. at 80.
53. Id.
54. Patricia Hill Collins, Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism 262 (2004).
55. Id. at 264; see Chito Childs, supra note 8, at 80.
56. Chito Childs, supra note 8, at 80.
57. Id. at 82-83.
58. Erica Chito Childs, Looking Behind the Stereotypes of the "Angry Black Woman": An Exploration of Black Women's Responses to Interracial Relationships, 19 Gender & Soc'y 544, 552 (2005).
59. Chito Childs, supra note 8, at 67-69, 82-87, 154-57.
60. Id. at 87-95.
61. Id.
62. Id. at 87.
63. See id. at 70-73, 83-84, 88-90, 99, 163-81 (discussing film and Internet representations); Chito Childs, supra note 12 (providing an in-depth critical analysis of all media and popular culture representations of interracial sex and relationships).
64. See Chito Childs, supra note 8, at 98-99, 160-61; Chito Childs, supra note 50, at 551-54.
65. Chito Childs, supra note 8, at 157.
66. Id. at 157.
67. One Night Stand (New Line Cinema 1997).
68. Jungle Fever (40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks 1991).
69. Freeway (August Entertainment 1996).
70. Thirteen (Michael London Productions 2003).
71. Chito Childs, supra note 8, at 157.
72. Id. at 159.
73. Id.; Chito Childs, supra note 50, at 552-53.
74. Chito Childs, supra note 50, at 553.
75. Id.
76. Chito Childs, supra note 8, at 156.
77. Id.
78. Id.
79. Id. at 154-57.
80. Rebecca Gardyn, Love Is Colorblind . . . or Is It?, Am. Demographics, June 2000, at 11, 11-12.
81. Chito Childs, supra note 8, at 156-57.
82. Id. at 191.
83. Id.
84. Id. at 191-92.
85. Id. at 191.
86. See id.
87. Id.
88. See id. at 169-81 (discussing the Internet).
89. Loving v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1 (1967).