The Architecture of Desire: How the Law Shapes Interracial Intimacy and Perpetuates Inequality In-Person
Law professor Solangel Maldonado will speak on her book, The Architecture of Desire: How the law shapes interracial intimacy and perpetuates inequality. It examines how the law influences our most personal and private choices--who we desire and choose as intimate partners--and explores the psychological, economic, and social effects of these choices. Romantic preferences, as shaped by law, perpetuate segregation and subordination by limiting, on the basis of race, individuals' prospects for marriage and marriage-like commitments, as well as economic and social mobility.
Solangel Madonado is the Eleanor Bontecou Professor of Law at Seton Hall University School of Law. She is the co-editor of Family Law: Cases and Materials and Family Law in the World Community; Cases, Materials, and Problems in Comparative and International Family Law.