Interracial Intimacies: Sex, Power and Global Encounters (Gendering World History)

With a chronology that spans from 1500 to the present day, Interracial Intimacies centers relationships as a historical force in the making of the modern world, rethinking world history from the ground up, and illuminating how everyday relationships helped produce global hierarchies and how people shaped their own lives within them. The book moves from slave ships and battlefields to migrant neighbourhoods and courtrooms to show how relationships across racial, cultural, and imperial boundaries shaped systems of power, identity, and belonging.It highlights the intersection of social, political and cultural factors that worked to segregate people based on race and how the development of interracial sexual relationships worked to threaten this division.Through personal vignettes and vivid global case studies, the book shows that interracial relationships were never merely private affairs.They were sites where race, gender, sexuality, and empire were negotiated, enforced, and sometimes re