Here are the collected posts for our Balkinization we are hosting a symposium on Solangel Maldonado, The Architecture of Desire: How the Law Shapes Interracial Intimacy and Perpetuates Inequality (New York University Press, 2024).
1. Jack Balkin, Introduction to the Symposium
2. Naomi Cahn, Deconstructing Desire
3. Dorothy Roberts, Interracial Intimacy and Racial Equality
4. Aníbal Rosario Lebrón, Desire in the Absence of Discrimination
5. Kevin R. Johnson, Law, Racism, and Interracial Intimacy: The Architecture of Desire by Solangel Maldonado
6. Rachel F. Moran, Interracial Intimacy: The Past as Prologue, or Something Else?
7. Reginald Oh, The Relational Construction of Whiteness and Racial Hierarchy
8. Tanya Katerí Hernández, The celebration of interracial intimacy racial mixture as the cure for racism – A Critical View
9. Edward Stein, Understanding “Racialized” Desire Requires Understanding “Gendered” Desire
10. Russell K. Robinson, Interracial Intimacy and the Limits of Legal Analysis
11. Linda C. McClain, Of Bridge Parties, the Dating/Marriage Market, and Intimate Racism: Putting The Architecture of Desire and A Passage to India into Conversation
12. Rick Banks, Commentary on The Architecture of Desire: How the Law Shapes Interracial Intimacy and Perpetuates Inequality
13. Solangel Maldonado, Removing the Barriers to Interracial Relationships—Without Promoting Marriage
14. Solangel Maldonado, Comparative and Global Perspectives on Interracial Relationships
15. Solangel Maldonado, The Limits of Law: Children’s Racial Preferences, Qualitative Questions, and Gender-Related Preferences