This chapter offers a close reading of black/white interracial romance in Sandra Kitt's The Color of Love (1995) and Eric Jerome Dickey's Milk in My Coffee (1998) alongside Michael Jackson's 1991 song "Black or White" and Me'Shell NdegeOcello's 1993 ballad "Soul on Ice." This chapter uncovers how black/white interracial romance is proffered as a postracial antidote to white supremacy and antiblack racism.
See Chapter 3, "Marrying Black":