Sat, Mar 31: Live Teleseminar on Myths About Interracial Relationships
Not Just Fetishists and Race Traitors:
Challenging the Ways We Look At Interracial Relationships
Date: Saturday, March 31, 2007
Time: 5:00 p.m. Eastern time / 2:00 p.m. Pacific time
Length: 60 minutes
Fee: $19.99 for either the live teleseminar or recording
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Even after John and Yoko, and Heidi and Seal, interracial relationships are still considered taboo. Society’s discomfort is especially obvious in the media, where interracial couples are constantly exploited for eroticism or shock value. In this seminar, Carmen Van Kerckhove examines the historical origins of this tension and explore the common assumptions made about interracial couples. Carmen demonstrates that while race plays an undeniable role in shaping the dynamics within interracial relationships, it does so in far more complex and subtle ways than people may initially think.
Here are just some of the questions this teleseminar will address:
- Why is there such a fascination with interracial sex? (try Googling “interracial” and see what you get)
- What historical legacies have created ambivalence towards interracial relationships?
- Why do people associate the race of your partner with your racial loyalty?
- Why is it that images of interracial relationships are dominated by black/white couples, when in reality, blacks are the least likely among people of color to marry interracially?
- Why are Asian women 3 times more likely to marry white men than Asian men are to marry white women?
As a bonus, all attendees will receive a free copy of the special report The 10 Biggest Trends in Race and Pop Culture.
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Have a look at the PowerPoint slides for this teleseminar to get a sense of what we’ll be covering:
Carmen Van Kerckhove is co-founder and president of 
Alex wrote:
When you discuss Asian couples, are you including South West Asians as well as East Asians? Because these two groups have fairly different intermarriage rates.
Posted 21 Mar 2007 at 7:32 pm ¶
Wayne wrote:
Ling and Fish?
I remember Lucy Lu was quite popular on the show, but I don’t recall there being much talk about the relationship.
I’m suprised Burke and Cristina were not included.
Posted 21 Mar 2007 at 8:48 pm ¶
Carmen Van Kerckhove wrote:
Alex, the 2000 census statistics include all Asians in their counts of “Asian-Americans.” But I do talk about the fact that certain segments of the Asian population (Japanese-American women, for example) have particularly high outmarriage rates.
Wayne - actually that list is the top 10 most sensationalized interracial couples, fictional or real. Totally unscientific, just my opinion. To me, Burke and Cristina don’t belong on that list because the show makes such a non-issue out of their race that they are most definitely not sensationalized at all.
Posted 22 Mar 2007 at 7:01 am ¶
Rob wrote:
It seems that the “disparity” is more rife in East Asian communities such as Korean, Chinese, and Japanese.
Posted 22 Mar 2007 at 9:10 am ¶
Wayne wrote:
Carmen, you’re right about Burke and Cristina’s race being a non issue. I actually thought about that after I made the post, but thanks for addressing it anyway.
Posted 22 Mar 2007 at 9:36 am ¶