RAISING (AND ERASING) DIFFERENCE: DOMINANT AND MARGINALIZED DISCOURSES IN INTERRACIAL COUPLES’ NARRATIVES

Despite the proliferation in the United States of couples with partners of differing racial backgrounds, researchers have not examined the narratives that circulate between partners around their experiences of creating, or coauthoring, their relationships in a structural context that favors homogamo...

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1. Verfasser:	KYLE D. KILLIAN
Format:	Buchkapitel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	African Americans American minorities American studies Anthropology Behavioral sciences Black white relations Communications Diseases Ethnic groups Ethnicity Ethnography Ethnology Health sciences History of the Americas Human behavior Human societies Hypersensitivity Immune system diseases Medical conditions Narratives North American history Personality psychology Prejudices Psychological attitudes Psychology Race relations Racism Social behavior Social dynamics Social interaction Social psychology Social sciences Sociology United States history White people
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Zusammenfassung:	Despite the proliferation in the United States of couples with partners of differing racial backgrounds, researchers have not examined the narratives that circulate between partners around their experiences of creating, or coauthoring, their relationships in a structural context that favors homogamous, monoracial relationships. In this chapter, I present a different slice of the interview data by presenting major themes from the interviews via a discourse analysis that shows that there are two sides to any story or version of events, even from the same people. Discourse analysis (Foucault 1980; Hare-Mustin 1994) emphasizes the importance of recognizing the prevailing ideologies in