Download or read book Love n Protect Interracial Romance written by Tressie Lockwood and published by Tressie Lockwood. This book was released on with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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**

Download or read book Boundaries of Love written by Chinyere K. Osuji and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2019-05-21 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Love in Black and White written by William S. Cohen and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Love Under the Skin written by Cécile Coquet-Mokoko and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-04-15 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Beyond Loving written by Amy C. Steinbugler and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-07-24 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Revolutionizing Romance written by Nadine T Fernandez and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2010-02-18 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars have long heralded mestizaje, or race mixing, as the essence of the Cuban nation. Revolutionizing Romance is an account of the continuing significance of race in Cuba as it is experienced in interracial relationships. This ethnography tracks young couples as they move in a world fraught with shifting connections of class, race, and culture that are reflected in space, racialized language, and media representations of blackness, whiteness, and mixedness. As one of the few scholars to conduct long-term anthropological fieldwork in the island nation, Nadine T. Fernandez offers a rare insider's view of the country's transformations during the post-Soviet era. Following a comprehensive history of racial formations up through Castro's rule, the book then delves into more intimate and contemporary spaces. Language, space and place, foreign tourism, and the realm of the family each reveal, through the author's deft analysis, the paradox of living a racialized life in a nation that celebrates a policy of colorblind equality.

Download or read book Wynter s Protection Interracial Romance written by Tressie Lockwood and published by Tressie Lockwood. This book was released on with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Download or read book Liar For Hire Interracial Romance written by Tressie Lockwood and published by Tressie Lockwood. This book was released on with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Download or read book In the Dream House written by Carmen Maria Machado and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Mad Mafia Love An Interracial Romance Novel written by Jamila Jasper and published by Jamila Jasper Romance. This book was released on with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book #1 in Jamila Jasper's best-selling interracial mafia romance trilogy. Eve never thought she'd fall for a guy in the mafia. But Nico is persistent and refuses to take no for an answer. He wants to make Eve his... No matter the cost. She can't allow herself to fall in love with a guy like that. But she does. And her life changes forever.

Download or read book Love n Ice Interracial Romance written by Tressie Lockwood and published by Tressie Lockwood. This book was released on with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Noelle Lemise has lost all of her family. The one thing she had left was her uncle’s inheritance but that is gone too. She returns to her hometown with no home, no money, and no prospects. Desperate, Noelle decides to confront the blackhearted devil who stole her uncle’s bar and home. She comes face to face with a man who is as hot as he is cold, and he wants control of Noelle too. Noelle can’t tell what Rhys Breckon is thinking, but she knows what he wants. He wants her to obey his every command. She would be a fool to give herself over to a man she can’t trust. Any relationship they form won’t last. Tell that to her body, which responds to his every caress and spanking. Author's Note: Adult situations and light domination/submission. ** interracial romance, contemporary romance, multicultural romance, erotic romance, bwwm **

Download or read book The Company We Keep written by Grace Kao and published by Russell Sage Foundation. This book was released on 2019-10-24 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book To Love and Protect His Omega written by Quinn Michaels and published by Enticed By Books Press. This book was released on 2018-06-29 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Virginia Hasn t Always Been for Lovers written by Phyl Newbeck and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2008-03-14 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This landmark volume chronicles the history of laws banning interracial marriage in the United States with particular emphasis on the case of Richard and Mildred Loving, a white man and a black woman who were convicted by the state of Virginia of the crime of marrying across racial lines in the late 1950s. The Lovings were not activists, but their battle to live together as husband and wife in their home state instigated the 1967 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that antimiscegenation laws were unconstitutional, which ultimately resulted in the overturning of laws against interracial marriage that were still in effect in sixteen states by the late 1960s.

Download or read book Romance and Rights written by Alex Lubin and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2009-09-18 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Romance and Rights: The Politics of Interracial Intimacy, 1945–1954 studies the meaning of interracial romance, love, and sex in the ten years after World War II. How was interracial romance treated in popular culture by civil rights leaders, African American soldiers, and white segregationists? Previous studies focus on the period beginning in 1967 when the Supreme Court overturned the last state anti-miscegenation law (Loving v. Virginia). Lubin's study, however, suggests that we cannot fully understand contemporary debates about “hybridity,” or mixed-race identity, without first comprehending how WWII changed the terrain. The book focuses on the years immediately after the war, when ideologies of race, gender, and sexuality were being reformulated and solidified in both the academy and the public. Lubin shows that interracial romance, particularly between blacks and whites, was a testing ground for both the general American public and the American government. The government wanted interracial relationships to be treated primarily as private affairs to keep attention off contradictions between its outward aura of cultural freedom and the realities of Jim Crow politics and anti-miscegenation laws. Activists, however, wanted interracial intimacy treated as a public act, one that could be used symbolically to promote equal rights and expanded opportunities. These contradictory impulses helped shape our current perceptions about interracial romances and their broader significance in American culture. Romance and Rights ends in 1954, the year of the Brown v. Board of Education decision, before the civil rights movement became well organized. By closely examining postwar popular culture, African American literature, NAACP manuscripts, miscegenation laws, and segregationist protest letters, among other resources, the author analyzes postwar attitudes towards interracial romance, showing how complex and often contradictory those attitudes could be.

Download or read book Love after Betrayal An Interracial Billionaire Romance written by Yuwanda Black and published by Inkwell Editorial Publishing. This book was released on 2019-09-11 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PREVIEW A devastating affair. An unexpected pregnancy. A new love waiting to be explored. An old flame longing to be rekindled. Could there possibly be Love after Betrayal? *** How do you flush twelve years of marriage down the drain? Can you flush twelve years of marriage down the drain? When Gunner, Bria's husband of a dozen years, tells her that he's fathered a child outside of their marriage, her whole life plan is turned upside down. While she freely admits that she's been married to her career, she thought they were on the same page: she'd make partner at her corporate law firm, his construction firm would thrive, and then they'd start a family. They'd be financially secure – creating a life without the money worries they both grew up with. That's why Bria couldn't process what Gunner was telling her. *** "I'm sorry, but I had to tell you. I'm sorry, Bria. You have to believe me," Gunner pleaded. "I want to work through this. I'm hoping that in time you can forgive me. I love you. You're the only woman I've ever loved. You know this." He looked sincere. He sounded sincere. She knew this man. She loved this man. But … "Work through this?" Bria laughed humorlessly, drowning out the voices in her head and the love in her heart. "Let me get this straight. You‘re telling me that you've been cheating on me; that you have a one-month old baby with whoever the slut is, and you want me," she said, putting her index finger to her chest, "to somehow find it in me to work things out with you? Have you lost your ever-loving mind?!" she exploded. *** It couldn't be true. It just couldn't. But it was. And she had to accept it. But when Bria suddenly finds herself pregnant, will she and her ex-husband find their way back to each other? Or, will she find lasting love with a new flame?

Download or read book The Colors of Love written by Melinda A. Mills and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2021-12-07 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book explores the experiences of multiracial people in intimate romantic relationships. The author considers how preferred racial identity shapes partner choice and the experiences of being racially mixed in romantic relationships. The book also examines patterns in multiracial people's romantic careers, to assess how much they are blending and blurring racial borders, or reinforcing them. It illustrates the extent to which members of the "two or more races" population participates in and upholds the current racial hierarchy"--