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Laboring in the Shadow of Empire: Race, Gender and Care Work in Portugal examines the everyday lives of an African descendant care service workforce that labors in an ostensibly "anti-racial" Europe and against the backdrop of the Portuguese colonial empire. While much of the literature on global care work has focused on Asian and Latine migrant care workers, there is comparatively less research that explicitly examines African care workers an...

Laboring in the Shadow of Empire: Race, Gender and Care Work in Portugal examines the everyday lives of an African descendant care service workforce that labors in an ostensibly "anti-racial" Europe and against the backdrop of the Portuguese colonial empire. While much of the literature on global care work has focused on Asian and Latine migrant care workers, there is comparatively less research that explicitly examines African care workers an...

The Dating Divide illuminates dimensions of online dating that have remained in the dark. This timely, original, and provocative book tells a story that is not simply about online intimacy, but about how race and gender intersect with desire in private realms of contemporary life."—Maxine Baca Zinn, Professor Emeritus, Department of Sociology, Michigan State University "Does your race affect whether you get messages on a dating site? Using dat...

The authors analyze the data that have been 'hiding in plain sight' to show how the search for love and intimacy is racialized. This asks us to ask ourselves: is the 'taste' for a homogeneous racial match in itself racist?"—Pepper Schwartz, Professor of Sociology, University of Washington "Drawing on 'big data' from a major dating website and probing personal interviews, The Dating Divide masterfully shows how dating and mating in the United S...