Abstract
Examining how race, gender, and power construct and are constructed by the discourse of black/white interracial heterosexual personal ads, we find personals steeped in competing identity myths that perform a sexual politics of desire, and we show how these myths resonate with and challenge competing mythologies. A sliding scale of sexual economies, issues and loci of power figures and refigures race and gender. In same-race relationships, power tends to be figured along gender lines; in interracial relations, power seems to be figured first along race and secondarily along gender lines. Desiring interracial coupling requires disrupting racialized and gendered power structures.
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