Injurious Love: Racial Violence and Interracial Intimacy

In Injurious Love: Racial Violence and Interracial Intimacy, Corrine Collins challenges one of the most durable liberal narratives of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries: that interracial love functions as a natural antidote to racism.Across the United States and Great Britain, interracial relationships and multiracial families have frequently been celebrated as symbols of social progress, intimate proof that racial boundaries have softened.Collins asks what this story leaves out. Drawing on Black studies, critical mixed race studies, and Black queer feminist thought, Injurious Love examines how intimacy unfolds within the long histories of enslavement and colonization that shape racial life in the Anglosphere.Rather than treating love as a race-neutral force capable of transcending difference, Collins argues that interracial relationships are structured by enduring asymmetries of power and by racialized politics of desire.The book pays particular attention to the figur