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Lubin, Alex. "Race-ing Romance: Interracialism and the Limits of Freedom in Post-WWII American, 1945-1954," American Studies, University of Minnesota, January 2000.
This dissertation examines interracial romantic relationships as they were represented and lived in the post-WWII popular culture, African American literature, Cold War rhetoric, and African American civil rights politics. I mine postwar comic books, African American literature, NAACP transcripts, and State Department transcripts as the contexts in which to read and analyze interracialism after WWII. Because the United States justified its Cold War policy as anti-racist and anti-fascist, interracial romantic relationships became an especially charged matter after WWII. African American civil rights organizations capitalized on Cold War imperatives by pushing for an end to anti-miscegenation laws. Moreover, some African American political and cultural leaders viewed their interracial romances as civil rights activities. Yet interracialism was simultaneously fraught with difficulties and limits because of the ways it reinscribed racist and sexist practices onto the Cold War society and the civil right movements. Hence, despite much current scholarship which trumpets the possibilities of interracialism, this dissertation ultimately raises questions about the limits of interracialism to abrogate dominant racial paradigms.
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