The Duty to Miscegenate.

[摘要] In ;;The duty to miscegenate;;, I harness John Stuart Mill;;s 19th century theory of social freedom to explain and to dismantle contemporary racialised and gendered injustice. In the first chapter—Social stigmatisation: ;;a social tyranny;;—I argue that persons racialised-and-gendered-as-black-women were, in the past, unjustly stigmatised by legal penalties against ;;miscegenation;; and are still, today, unjustly stigmatised by white male avoidance of cross-racial marriage and companionship. In the second chapter—Encounters that count: ;;a foundation for solid friendship;;—I argue that we can dismantle this stigmatisation, by engaging in regular and frequent cross-racial commensality with persons racialised-and-gendered-as-black-women.In the third chapter—White right: ;;a right to avoid;;—I argue that, although we have a right to avoid commensal encounters with others, we do not have a right to avoid persons we racialise as black. On the contrary, we have a duty to encounter them, on terms of equality and intimacy.

[发布机构] University of Michigan

[效力级别] Miscegenation

[关键词] John Stuart Mill;Miscegenation;Stigma;Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar;Companionship;Freedom of Association;Philosophy;Humanities;Philosophy