Love -n- Protect: Interracial Romance

Love -n- Protect: Interracial Romance
Author: Tressie Lockwood
Publisher: Tressie Lockwood
Total Pages: 241
Release:
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Awbry James was stoked to get the promotion to manager of Breckon House. The bar wasn’t hers, but she loved working there. Not to mention enjoying the sexy view of her boss’ identical brother Merrick. He’s always happy, always joking, and always looked good enough to eat. Awbry’s got her hands full trying to decide what to do about her financial troubles. She’s buried under a mountain of debt left over from her father’s illness. She’s wondering if she should take some of the burden off and marry her ex, or if she should look for someone new. The last thing Awbry expects is to have Merrick come on to her. He’s out of her league, but the offer to become lovers is too tempting. Things turn bad when her brother brings danger to her doorstep and threatens both her safety and her job. Merrick swoops in to protect her, but Awbry’s used to standing alone. The stubborn man won’t stop trying to be her knight. At this rate, she’s going to fall in love. But what’s going to happen when her mistakes come to light? Will Merrick step up, or will he turn his back on her broken heart? **interracial romance, multicultural romance, contemporary romance, erotic romance, bwwm**

Boundaries of Love

Boundaries of Love
Author: Chinyere K. Osuji
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2019-05-21
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1479857289

How interracial couples in Brazil and the US navigate racial boundaries How do people understand and navigate being married to a person of a different race? Based on individual interviews with forty-seven black-white couples in two large, multicultural cities—Los Angeles and Rio de Janeiro—Boundaries of Love explores how partners in these relationships ultimately reproduce, negotiate, and challenge the “us” versus “them” mentality of ethno-racial boundaries. By centering marriage, Chinyere Osuji reveals the family as a primary site for understanding the social construction of race. She challenges the naive but widespread belief that interracial couples and their children provide an antidote to racism in the twenty-first century, instead highlighting the complexities and contradictions of these relationships. Featuring black husbands with white wives as well as black wives with white husbands, Boundaries of Love sheds light on the role of gender in navigating life married to a person of a different color. Osuji compares black-white couples in Brazil and the United States, the two most populous post–slavery societies in the Western hemisphere. These settings, she argues, reveal the impact of contemporary race mixture on racial hierarchies and racial ideologies, both old and new.

Love Under the Skin

Love Under the Skin
Author: Cécile Coquet-Mokoko
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 219
Release: 2020-04-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1000044149

The rising visibility of interracial couples calls for increased attention to the overlapping of culture and race, in safe spaces centered on small-group dynamics, or in public spaces where peoples of African descent are under the public gaze. This comparative study seeks to de-center the U.S-centered viewpoint common to much of the literature on black/white relations. Based on nine years of fieldwork in the American South and in France, Coquet shows many unexpected parallels between the two societies. Gendered perceptions of cultural authenticity and sexual ethics are a guiding thread, being inseparable from the historical and political contingencies (re-)defining acceptable forms of dating, marrying, and parenting among cis-heterosexual couples in both societies. Her account emphasizes resilience and agency as couples seek to protect themselves and their children, while their extended or symbolic kinship networks help white partners acknowledge the existence of racial privilege.

Beyond Loving

Beyond Loving
Author: Amy C. Steinbugler
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2012-07-24
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0199995842

Beyond Loving provides a critical examination of interracial intimacy in the beginning decades of the twenty-first century-an era rife with racial contradictions, where interracial relationships are increasingly seen as symbols of racial progress even as old stereotypes about illicit eroticism persist. Drawing on extensive qualitative research, Amy Steinbugler examines the racial dynamics of everyday life for lesbian, gay, and heterosexual Black/White couples. She disputes the notion that interracial partners are enlightened subjects who have somehow managed to "get beyond" race. Instead, for many partners, interracial intimacy represents not the end, but the beginning of a sustained process of negotiating racial differences. Her research reveals the ordinary challenges that partners frequently face and the myriad ways that race shapes their interactions with each other as well as with neighbors, family members, co-workers and strangers. Steinbugler analyzes the everyday actions and strategies through which individuals maintain close relationships in a society with deeply-rooted racial inequalities-what she calls "racework." Beyond Loving reveals interracial intimacy as an ongoing process rather than a singular accomplishment. This analytic shift helps us reach a new understanding of how race "works"-not just in intimate spheres, but across all facets of contemporary social life.

The Company We Keep

The Company We Keep
Author: Grace Kao
Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2019-10-24
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 161044888X

With hate crimes on the rise and social movements like Black Lives Matter bringing increased attention to the issue of police brutality, the American public continues to be divided by issues of race. How do adolescents and young adults form friendships and romantic relationships that bridge the racial divide? In The Company We Keep, sociologists Grace Kao, Kara Joyner, and Kelly Stamper Balistreri examine how race, gender, socioeconomic status, and other factors affect the formation of interracial friendships and romantic relationships among youth. They highlight two factors that increase the likelihood of interracial romantic relationships in young adulthood: attending a diverse school and having an interracial friendship or romance in adolescence. While research on interracial social ties has often focused on whites and blacks, Hispanics are the largest minority group and Asian Americans are the fastest growing racial group in the United States. The Company We Keep examines friendships and romantic relationships among blacks, whites, Hispanics, and Asian Americans to better understand the full spectrum of contemporary race relations. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health, the authors explore the social ties of more than 15,000 individuals from their first survey responses as middle and high school students in the mid-1990s through young adulthood nearly fifteen years later. They find that while approval for interracial marriages has increased and is nearly universal among young people, interracial friendships and romantic relationships remain relatively rare, especially for whites and blacks. Black women are particularly disadvantaged in forming interracial romantic relationships, while Asian men are disadvantaged in the formation of any romantic relationships, both as adolescents and as young adults. They also find that people in same-sex romantic relationships are more likely to have partners from a different racial group than are people in different-sex relationships. The authors pay close attention to how the formation of interracial friendships and romantic relationships depends on opportunities for interracial contact. They find that the number of students choosing different-race friends and romantic partners is greater in schools that are more racially diverse, indicating that school segregation has a profound impact on young people’s social ties. Kao, Joyner, and Balistreri analyze the ways school diversity and adolescent interracial contact intersect to lay the groundwork for interracial relationships in young adulthood. The Company We Keep provides compelling insights and hope for the future of living and loving across racial divides.

Wynter's Protection: Interracial Romance

Wynter's Protection: Interracial Romance
Author: Tressie Lockwood
Publisher: Tressie Lockwood
Total Pages: 80
Release:
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Previously published. Assistant DA Wynter King has brought down a big fish in court and is thrilled at the way her career is going, but retaliation lands her in the hospital. Now Wynter must hide until her attacker and his escapee boss is caught. She sees no other option but to run to her ex-fiancé, retired police detective Crowe Hansen. Crowe left the life of danger behind, along with Wynter, when he moved to Montana to follow his dream of running a ski lodge. Wynter is risking humiliation and opening old wounds going to him, but she knows with Crowe’s background, he’s the only one that can protect her. When the danger is past, will she go back to Baltimore and leave the man she’s never stopped loving? Keywords: interracial romance, multicultural romance, bwwm, contemporary romance

Love in Black and White

Love in Black and White
Author: William S. Cohen
Publisher:
Total Pages: 424
Release: 2007
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Most Americans regard the World War II period as belonging to the greatest generation, but it was also a time when religious intolerance and racial violence flourished. It is within this world that this compelling memoir is set. Against impossible odds, Bill would be elected to serve his country as a U.S. Congressman and Senator, and Janet would become a prominent television personality, activist, and highly respected businesswoman and author. This powerful book is one of inspiration, hope and ultimately the redemption of America's soul.

In the Dream House

In the Dream House
Author: Carmen Maria Machado
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2019-11-05
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1644451026

A revolutionary memoir about domestic abuse by the award-winning author of Her Body and Other Parties In the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado’s engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad, and a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of psychological abuse. Tracing the full arc of a harrowing relationship with a charismatic but volatile woman, Machado struggles to make sense of how what happened to her shaped the person she was becoming. And it’s that struggle that gives the book its original structure: each chapter is driven by its own narrative trope—the haunted house, erotica, the bildungsroman—through which Machado holds the events up to the light and examines them from different angles. She looks back at her religious adolescence, unpacks the stereotype of lesbian relationships as safe and utopian, and widens the view with essayistic explorations of the history and reality of abuse in queer relationships. Machado’s dire narrative is leavened with her characteristic wit, playfulness, and openness to inquiry. She casts a critical eye over legal proceedings, fairy tales, Star Trek, and Disney villains, as well as iconic works of film and fiction. The result is a wrenching, riveting book that explodes our ideas about what a memoir can do and be.

To Love and Protect Box Set: Books 4-6

To Love and Protect Box Set: Books 4-6
Author: LK Shaw
Publisher: LK Shaw
Total Pages: 489
Release: 2022-02-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Get books 4-6 in the To Love and Protect series in one single set. Best friend's older brother, age gap, a wedding, and an anti-hero protector romance. All your favorite tropes with sexy alpha men and the strong women they love. Bullet Proof - When Michele and her daughter, Maisie, need protection, Pablo volunteers. Can this single, young mother show this much older man that when it comes to love, age is nothing but a number? For Always - Three years after their first meeting, Ines and Brody are finally getting married! Along the way, Victor and Estelle reignite their intimacy after the birth of their son, Preston and Landon have a serious discussion about their future, and Maisie officially becomes a Rodriguez! Point Blank - After a drug bust turns rescue mission, one of the women looks at Oliver as though he's her knight in shining armor. Little does she know how tarnished that armor truly is. When her life is threatened, he never imagined falling in love.

Liar For Hire: Interracial Romance

Liar For Hire: Interracial Romance
Author: Tressie Lockwood
Publisher: Tressie Lockwood
Total Pages: 133
Release:
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Author's Note: This work is clean. Declan will do whatever he needs to do to protect his best friend. He runs off Janessa’s dates who are actually predators or ex-cons. He watches over her from afar because that’s all he’ll ever be able to do for her. No matter how much Declan loves Janessa, it doesn’t change the fact that he has a secret he’s ashamed of. Janessa is in love with her best friend and business partner Declan. She’ll never be in a serious relationship with him because both of them lie for a living. How can she trust him if Declan turns to her for more than friendship? Choices for both are ripped away when Declan’s past comes knocking and they’re taken hostage. This time, Declan’s not sure if he’s strong enough to protect Janessa, and Janessa doesn’t know if she can accept that Declan isn’t even human. ** interracial romance, multicultural romance, shifter romance, clean romance, paranormal romance