| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.1

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Book Review

Interracial Intimacy: The Regulation of Race & Romance. By Rachel F. Moran. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. xii, 271 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-226-53662-9.)

Tackling a provocative subject, Rachel F. Moran explores the role antimiscegenation laws played in defining normative family relationships throughout American history. She traces social and legal challenges to antimiscegenation laws and their lingering effects on current definitions of family, racial identity, and social policy. Moran's analysis revolves around how racial identity structures beliefs about intimate relationships. According to Moran, these laws asserted the superiority of white familial norms and pathologized interracial intimacy, encouraging what she terms "separate but equal" families. Moran moves beyond black-white polarities, examining how and why attitudes about racial mixing affected Hispanics, Asian Americans, and Native Americans differently. She convincingly establishes the connection between past prohibitions on interracial relationships and current controversies over social policy, such as continued low rates of interracial marriage, controversy over trans-racial adoptions, and the debate over the utility of multiracial categories. . . .

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