There is no teasing apart what interracial couples think of themselves
from what society shows them about themselves. Following on her earlier
ground-breaking study of the social worlds of interracial couples, Erica
Chito Childs considers the larger context of social messages, conveyed
by the media, that inform how we think about love across the color line.
Examining a range of media, from movies to music to the web, Fade to
Black and White offers an informative and provocative account of how the
perception of interracial sexuality as 'deviant' has been transformed in
the course of the 20th century and how race relations are understood
today.