Love's Not Color Blind: Race and Representation in Polyamorous and Other Alternative Communities

by Kevin A. Patterson

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The issues that make monogamous dating daunting for people of color-shaming and exclusion by white partners, being fetishized, having realities of everyday racism ignored-occur in polyamorous relationships too, and trying "not to see race" only makes it worse. To make polyamorous communities inclusive, we must all acknowledge our part in perpetuating racism and listen to people of color. Love's Not Color Blind puts forward the framework-through research, anecdotal testimony, and analogy-for show more understanding, identifying, and confronting racism within polyamorous communities. show less

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This book contains great advice for any community that would like to be more inclusive in its philosophy, even though it is geared towards polyamory in particular. The author points out a lot of difficult to elucidate facts about the intersection between race and various aspects of interacting with individual people and with organized events that are apparent to any member of a marginalized community, but might be invisible to non-marginalized people, or people who do not experience that particular type of marginalization. I appreciated that the author sought to include non-cisgendered, non-male, and non-straight voices as well without trying to talk over them or misappropriate their stories for his own purposes. Overall, it's very well show more written (though a little essay-like in some places). show less
great book covering polyamory from many excellent examples. it does this with examples that include mentions of neurodiversity, disability, class, kink. it details community building that can be used beyond the specific examples.

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Kevin Patterson, M.Ed., has been practicing ethical nonmonogamy for 15 years and is an active member of the Philadelphia polyamory community. He is the creator of the Poly Role Models project.

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Nonfiction, General Nonfiction
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306.84Society, government, & cultureSocial sciences, sociology & anthropologySocial Behavior - Dating, Marriage, DivorceMarriage, partnerships, unions; familySpecific types of marriages, partnerships, unions
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HQ980 .P38Social sciencesThe family. Marriage, Women and SexualityThe Family. Marriage. WomenThe family. Marriage. Home
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