Race and Sexuality The Booysen rape case is quite enlightening since it uncovers legal suppositions of how before the law was subject to mediation by race and more particularly over determined by interception of blackness and femaleness properties. There were prohibitions of interracial marriages as well as sexual relations as found in the post emancipation legislation of the U.S. South. The cape slave emancipation came up in an era where there existed marked competing definitions of race. A study of more cases after the emancipation indicates that there was a limit when it came to the women's experience of freedom. Most of the authors in time have generally being concerned with elusive myths that concern white women as being victims of black rapists as opposed to ways through which colonialism had created conditions that authorized the pervasive rape of black women by white men. The Booysen case suggest the centrality of sexuality to creation of various colonial identities as well as exposure of implicit assumptions of gender, race and class that informed colonial rule.in the course of the nineteenth century people of color that had been freed from slavery and some...

The Booysen case clearly brings out race as an issue of great importance .the existing racial prejudices in the nineteenth century shows how much rape victims especially those of color had a difficult time in finding justice. The intimacies between the whites and blacks seen in the nineteenth century bring out a suggestion of different aspects of these transnational intimacies (Scully,1997).
We will examine the transnational intimacies by focusing on a transnational town in Caribbean Costa…