Colorblind and Color bound
Everyday Neoliberalism in the Discourses on Romantic Interracial Relationships
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12739476 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andrea Jonahs (0000-0002-5819-793X, University of Waterloo, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-18 |
| Publication date | 2021-01-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1479-1420 • E-ISSN: 1479-4233 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14791420.2020.1854801 |
| OpenAlex | W3134663421 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
This study examines the construction of racial ideology in the discourses on romantic interracial relationships. Through a critical discourse analysis of online comments, I show how neoliberalism is adopted in ordinary sense-making about racialized dating practices, and how it motivates boundary work at the public-private divide. Boundary work defines the acceptable values and practices within dating life and correspondingly gives rise to colorboundness, an explicit defense of race as an acceptable category for exclusion. Colorboundness prompts a deeper understanding of how colorblind ideology accommodates tensions and contradictions and yet remains the dominant form of racial ideology
Aesthetics · Epistemology · Everyday life · Ideology · Neoliberalism (international relations · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Race (biology · Romance · Social science · Sociology · Critical Race Theory in Education · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Social Psychology
| Citations per year | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |