The Chronicle of Higher Education

Love and Race Caught in the Public Eye

By HEIDI ARDIZZONE and EARL LEWIS

Lovers seek to create a place that they can inhabit together against the obstacles of the world. Marriage promises that they will live in that place forever. What happens, though, when love cannot keep out the world's strictures? What happens when the bond severs, and the nation serves as a witness to marital separation? And what happens when a culture's...

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