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Wednesday, December 4, 2002 at 10:00 AM EST
Crossing the Romantic Color Line
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Interracial intimacy. White-black dating, marriage, and adoption are all on the rise in America. But opposition is strong, too. Why many African-Americans resist romances that cross the color line.

Guests:

Randall Kennedy, professor at Harvard Law School, author of the piece “Interracial Intimacy,” in the December 2002 issue of the Atlantic Monthly magazine

Audrey Edwards, contributing writer for Essence Magazine, author of “Bring Me Home a Black Girl”, in the November 2002 issue of Essence

 
 

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