ABSTRACT
In this afterword, Debra Thompson brings together the major themes of the volume, including the role of the state in creating and maintaining racial boundaries through the regulation of interracial intimacies, the importance of examining lesser known or unsuspecting cases of comparative racial politics, and the interplay of transnational and domestic imperatives of racial governance. Thompson details the wide array of instruments that the state employed in order to govern interracial relationships, highlighting the uneven targets and application of these regimes as well as those voices from below, who crossed racial boundaries and were entangled in complicated webs of power in their search for love, friendship, intimacy, and all things in between.
