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Interracial Intimacies: Sex, Marriage, Identity, and Adoption

by Randall Kennedy · 2003

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From the author of Nigger and Race, Crime, and the Law comes a tour de force about the controversial issue of personal interracial intimacy as it exists within ever-changing American social mores and within the rule of law.

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