ABSTRACT
In this chapter I reexamine the terrain of race, sex, and intimacy from the point of view of white women in primary relationships with partners or children of color. Their stories provide a different perspective on the discourse, both underscoring its impact on white women’s experience and further revealing the complexity of
white women’s relationships to it, but also foregrounding elements less visible from the “outsider” perspective. These narratives also bring into sharp relief the context of racism in which interracial relationships take place.
