Racial imperatives: discipline, performativity, and struggles against subjection

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Nadine Ehlers examines the constructions of blackness and whiteness cultivated in the U.S. imaginary and asks, how do individuals become racial subjects? She analyzes anti-miscegenation law, statutory definitions of race, and the rhetoric surrounding the phenomenon of racial passing to provide critical accounts of racial categorization and norms, the policing of racial behavior, and the regulation of racial bodies as they are underpinned by demarcations of sexuality, gender, and class. Ehlers p…

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Full title :Racial imperatives : discipline, performativity, and struggles against subjection / Nadine Ehlers.

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Publication Date:c2012.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Indiana University Press
Place of Publication:Bloomington
Language:eng
Publication Date:c2012.

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Description:1 online resource (198 p.)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:1280487135, 9781280487132, 9786613582362, 6613582360, 0253005361, 9780253005366
oclc:on1319453568
LC Classification:E184.A1
Dewey Decimal:305.800973

Racial Disciplinarity -- Racial Knowledges : Securing the Body in Law -- Passing through Racial Performatives -- Domesticating Liminality : Somatic Defiance in Rhinelander v. Rhinelander -- Passing Phantasms : Rhinelander and Ontological Insecurity -- Imagining Racial Agency -- Practicing Problematization : Resignifying Race.

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African Americans -- Race identity Case studies Discipline -- Philosophy Jones, Alice Beatrice Passing (Identity) Passing (Identity) -- Case studies. -- … Performative (Philosophy) Race -- Philosophy Race discrimination -- Law and legislat… Race discrimination -- Law and legislat… Race relations Racism Racism -- United States Trials, litigation, etc United States United States -- Race relations White people -- Race identity