The Dating Divide: Race and Desire in the Era of Online Romance
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The Dating Divide: Race and Desire in the Era of Online Romance

The Dating Divide: Race and Desire in the Era of Online Romance

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Celeste Vaughan Curington (Author) Jennifer Hickes Lundquist (Author) Ken-Hou Lin (Author)  

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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-scale behavioral data from a mainstream dating website, extensive archival research, and more than seventy-five in-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 the loss of social inhibition in cyberspace contexts, fostering openly expressed forms of sexual racism that are rarely 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 has given 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 of and platform for the 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, this compelling study uses data to show the racial biases at play in digital dating spaces. 37 graphs
Celeste Vaughan Curington is Assistant Professor of Sociology at North Carolina State University.Jennifer H. Lundquist is Professor of Sociology and Senior Associate Dean in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.Ken-Hou Lin is Associate Professor of Sociology and Population Research Center Associate at the University of Texas at Austin.
  • Contributor: Celeste Vaughan Curington
  • Imprint: University of California Press
  • ISBN13: 9780520293441
  • Number of Pages: 320
  • Packaged Dimensions: 152x229x25mm
  • Packaged Weight: 726
  • Format: Hardback
  • Publisher: University of California Press
  • Release Date: 2021-02-12
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Biography: Celeste Vaughan Curington is Assistant Professor of Sociology at North Carolina State University.Jennifer H. Lundquist is Professor of Sociology and Senior Associate Dean in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.Ken-Hou Lin is Associate Professor of Sociology and Population Research Center Associate at the University of Texas at Austin.

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