by Carmen Van Kerckhove

If any of you are Wingate University students, I’m going to be doing a workshop there on Monday evening. If you’d like more details, please email me. (Sorry, the event is open only to students at the school.)

Not Just Fetishists and Race Traitors: Challenging the Ways We Look At Interracial Relationships

60-minute presentation followed by 30 minutes of facilitated discussion.

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 workshop, 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.