"What happens to the racial consciousness of white women who marry black men and have black children? Professor France Winddance Twine reveals through a deep and extensive ethnography with forty white women in such relationships how their consciousness changes allowing them to become sensitive and adept at recognizing and dealing with racism. This is a truly original research that deserves a wide readership."--Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, author of "Racism Without Racists"

Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction: Territories of Whiteness in Black Britain 1
1. A Class Analysis of Interracial Intimacy 31
2. Disciplining Racial Dissidents: Transgressive Women, Transracial Mothers 60
3. The Concept of Racial Literacy 89
4. Racial Literacy in Practice 116
5. Written on the Body: Ethnic Capital and Black Cultural Production 146
6. Archives of Interracial Intimacies: Race, Respectability, and Family Photographs 171
7. White Like Who? Status, Stigma, and the Social Meanings of Whiteness 195
8. Gender Gaps in the Experience of Interracial Intimacy 223
Conclusion: Constricted Eyes and Racial Visions 257
Notes 267
References 279
Index 297