How interracial couples in Brazil and the US navigate racial boundaries How do people understand and navigate being married to a person of a different race? Based on individual interviews with forty-seven black-white couples in two large, multicultural cities—Los Angeles and Rio de Janeiro—Boundaries of Love explores how partners in these relationships ultimately reproduce, negotiate, and challenge the “us” versus “them” mentality of ethno-racial boundaries. By centering marriage, Chinyere Osuji reveals the family as a primary site for understanding the social construction of race. She challenges the naive but widespread belief that interracial couples and their children provide an antidote to racism in the twenty-first century, instead highlighting the complexities and contradictions of these relationships. Featuring black husbands with white wives as well as black wives with white husbands, Boundaries of Love sheds light on the role of gender in navigating life married to a person of a different color. Osuji compares black-white couples in Brazil and the United States, the two most populous post–slavery societies in the Western hemisphere. These settings, she argues, reveal the impact of contemporary race mixture on racial hierarchies and racial ideologies, both old and new.

How interracial couples in Brazil and the US navigate racial boundaries How do people understand and navigate being married to a person of a different race? Based on individual interviews with forty-seven black-white couples in two large, multicultural cities—Los Angeles and Rio de Janeiro—Boundaries of Love explores how partners in these relationships ultimately reproduce, negotiate, and challenge the “us” versus “them” mentality of ethno-racial boundaries. By centering marriage, Chinyere Osuji reveals the family as a primary site for understanding the social construction of race. She challenges the naive but widespread belief that interracial couples and their children provide an antidote to racism in the twenty-first century, instead highlighting the complexities and contradictions of these relationships. Featuring black husbands with white wives as well as black wives with white husbands, Boundaries of Love sheds light on the role of gender in navigating life married to a person of a different color. Osuji compares black-white couples in Brazil and the United States, the two most populous post–slavery societies in the Western hemisphere. These settings, she argues, reveal the impact of contemporary race mixture on racial hierarchies and racial ideologies, both old and new.

Learn when to say yes and how to say no in the context of your marriage relationship. In Boundaries in Marriage, Drs. Henry Cloud and John Townsend, counselors and authors of the New York Times bestseller Boundaries, teach us that healthy boundaries are the property lines that define and protect you and your spouse as individuals. Once you have them in place, a good marriage can become better, and a less-than-satisfying one can even be saved. Boundaries in Marriage will give you the tools and encouragement you need to: Set and maintain personal boundaries and respect those of your spouse Understand and practice two key ingredients to a successful marriage: freedom and responsibility Establish values that form a godly structure and architecture for your marriage Protect your marriage from different kinds of "intruders" Work with a spouse who understands and values boundaries--or with one who doesn't It's time to deepen your love by providing a better environment for it to flourish, and Drs. Cloud and Townsend are here to help. Discover how boundaries can make life better today!

This collection of real stories by real people will show you that interracial love can stand the test of time. It details the multitude of challenges that interracial couples have to work and prevail through while also discussing the reality of being a person of mixed-race heritage. These stories will make you laugh and cry, they will inspire, and most of all, they will show you that love is not only beautiful, it is powerful.

Book Description: LOVE HAS NO BOUNDARIES is a powerful story of love, forgiveness, personal growth and courage. This contempory drama brings together an abused wife of a truck driver and a man who moves next door, who's wife is a quadriplegic and overcome with guilt from the accident which took the life of their only son. LOVE HAS NO BOUNDARIES will challenge you to question the boundaries of love that man and morality have put into our souls, and to rejoice in the power of the human spirit.

Boundaries of Romance is a poetic classic and true account of a lady in search of true affection. It takes her through the storm, through the sun and when she was making up her mind to pack up on Love, she finally sees a glimpse of Light at the end of the tunnel. It shines all over her and gradually she learns how to come out of her shell. She learns of the audience she was created for and everything starts to take a new turn. Every issue in life has a boundary and the ability to know our limits makes up responsive and energetic to the ultimate search for which we are actually created to be in life. The mind of the author of this book has being to places, interacted with people and related with the who is who in the major ruling sectors of a viable economy. Every line scribbled down from her pen is worth the read, the written experiences are immeasurable; it cuts across casual to corporate way of getting with the right people. Romance is an ability and Yolanda Orozco Mendez knows how its web is spun. This book has a confirmed potential to heal the readers heart from a dented relationship.

Respected counselors, popular radio hosts, and bestselling authors Cloud and Townsend now apply the principles described in their bestselling "Boundaries" to matters of love and romance.