Race Matters

Abstract

Race matters. It matters in ways that transcend traditional theorizations of identity,`color',`race' and cultural difference around them/us, center/periphery or inside/ outside categories. This paper draws on interviews with 50 interracial families and argues that the micro-localized site of the family reveals the complex ways in which race discourses and racializing practices are re-articulated within and across diasporic cultural groups and cross-generationally. The data suggest that the formation and`lived experience' of interracial relationships draws individuals through a number of critical change events and into complex and unpredictable sites and moments of`third space' otherness.

An Interdependence Approach to Relationship Maintenance in Interracial Marriage

“…Second, although Leslie and Letiecq () found that social network support was not a particularly strong predictor of marital satisfaction in their study, the results of this study comport with a large body of literature that indicates that network support is indeed important for marital satisfaction in interracial marriage (e.g., Hill & Thomas, ; Killian, ; Luke & Carrington, ; Payne, ; Rosenblatt, Karis, & Powell, ). Thompson and Collier () argue that “in the case of interracial marriage, partners are required to negotiate societal understandings of race to cope or resist the pressures of the larger social world” (2006, p. 489).…”

Ambivalent ‘Selves’ in Transition: a case study of Japanese women studying in Australian universities

“…While the position of single women in Japan becomes particularly fraught as they get older, coming to Australia allowed Sakura to temporarily remove herself from such pressures (Morley, 1999, p. 37). Sakura's new life started with`estrangement' (Luke & Carrington, 2000) from family, friends and workplace (the`push' factor) to overcome the Christmas Cake Syndrome. 5 However, her cross-cultural experience during her ®rst visit to Australia meant a great deal to her that resulted in`awakening and relocating herself' in a new cultural environment (the`pull' factor).…”

“…In order to examine under what circumstances Japanese women decide to study overseas, Luke and Carrington's (2000) concept of construction of subjectivity was used. They deal with issues of`critical change events' in individuals' life histories to identify people's everyday public life and family relations and negotiations of their selves.…”

Introductory Analysis of Factors Affecting Intercultural Couples in the Context of Singapore

“…Also, individuals, who have been working a job for a long period, face discrimination as well, such as getting passed up for promotions, racially insensitive humour, and being left out of social events because of the race of the spouse. 63 These reasons are likely to give rise to detrimental feelings or resentment within their relationship and ultimately causing poorer marital satisfaction between them.…”