The Dating Divide
eBook - ePub

The Dating Divide

Race and Desire in the Era of Online Romance

  1. 320 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Dating Divide

Race and Desire in the Era of Online Romance

About this book

The data behind a distinct form of racism in online dating. The Dating Divide is the first comprehensive look at "digital-sexual racism, "a distinct form of racism that is mediated and amplified through the impersonal and anonymous context of online dating. Drawing on large-scalebehavioral data from a mainstream dating website, extensive archival research, and more than seventy-fivein-depth interviews with daters of diverse racial backgrounds and sexual identities, Curington, Lundquist, and Lin illustrate how the seemingly open space of the internet interacts with theloss of social inhibition in cyberspace contexts, fostering openly expressed forms of sexual racism that arerarely exposed in face-to-face encounters. The Dating Divide is a fascinating look at how a contemporary conflux of individualization, consumerism, and the proliferation of digital technologies hasgiven rise to a unique form of gendered racism in the era of swiping right—or left.

The internet is often heralded as an equalizer, a seemingly level playing field, but the digital world also acts as an extension ofand platform forthe insidious prejudices and divisive impulses that affect social politics in the "real"world. Shedding light on how every click, swipe, or message can be linked to the history of racism and courtship in the United States, thiscompelling study uses datato showthe racial biases at play in digital dating spaces.

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Yes, you can access The Dating Divide by Celeste Vaughan Curington,Jennifer Hickes Lundquist,Ken-Hou Lin in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Ethnic Studies. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Title
  2. Copyright
  3. Contents
  4. List of Tables and Figures
  5. Introduction: Dear Tinder, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
  6. 1.   Where Hate Trumps Love: The Birth and Legacy of Antimiscegenation in the United States
  7. 2.   From the Back Porch to the Computer Screen: The Rise of Choice in Courtship
  8. 3.   New Rules? Gendered Online Engagement
  9. 4.   A Privilege Endures: Dating While White in the Era of Online Dating
  10. 5.   The Unique Disadvantage: Dating While Black
  11. 6.   The Asian Experience: Resistance and Complicity
  12. 7.   “Hey, You’re Latin. Do You Like to Dance?“: The Privilege and Disadvantage of Latino/a Daters
  13. 8.   Postracial Multiracialism: A Challenge to the White Racial Frame?
  14. Conclusion: Abolishing the Dating Divide
  15. Acknowledgments
  16. Appendix: Data and Methods
  17. Interviews
  18. Notes
  19. Bibliography
  20. Index