Constructing Racial Boundaries Precis/Free Write

Chapter Two of Navigating Interracial Borders: Black-White Couples & their Social Worlds by an unnamed author is one called "Constructing Racial Boundaries and White Communities" is overall about whites accepting interracial relationships as well as the media and surveys support. The author uses compare-and-contrast with past history of interracial relationships as well as present day news stories to bring his point home. In order to further study the sociological view of a interracial society, this article was written to further shed light and explain. The intended audience are fellow sociologists and ones interested in the accepting of interracial relationships, like myself. I really like this article, although the argument is against mine. This will be helpful in my paper because I have something to counteract, that way I have a little 'they say' in my paper, and it can be a littler structured. It will add a couple paragraphs to my paper because I have to disprove the author's claim, and that can give my paper a little more ethos. This article made it clear that it was hard for whites to fully accept interracial marriages, because it was such a big deal and made such big change. "Many whites believed that desegregation and racial integration was the equivalent of promoting interracial sexual relations and marriage. These incidents reveal how sexuality, and even the potential for interracial sex to occur, influenced not only social interaction between blacks and whites but also the economic and political realms." The author further explains that people don't like talking about the subject, and the possible reasons why. "In my interviews with white community members, interracial relationships were rendered outside the realm of what is speakable; in other words, interracial relationships were not part of the available discourse or script that they as a group drew upon." Close knit societies don't want to step on other people's toes, and that's often a problem... Or is it?