Racial imperatives : discipline, performativity, and struggles against subjection

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

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 criti...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ehlers, Nadine
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2012]
Series:UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Global cultural studies collection.
Subjects:
Jones, Alice Beatrice > Trials, litigation, etc.
Jones, Alice Beatrice
African Americans > Race identity.
White people > Race identity.
Racism > United States.
Race discrimination > Law and legislation > United States.
Race > Philosophy.
Discipline > Philosophy.
Performative (Philosophy)
Passing (Identity) > United States > Case studies.
HISTORY > Social History.
African Americans > Race identity
Passing (Identity)
Race discrimination > Law and legislation
Race > Philosophy
Race relations
Racism
White people > Race identity
United States > Race relations.
United States
dissertations.
Case studies
Trials, litigation, etc.
Academic theses.
Thèses et écrits académiques.
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Table of Contents:
  • Racial disciplinarity
  • Racial knowledges : securing the body in law
  • Passing through racial performatives
  • Domesticating liminality : somatic defiance in rRhinelander v. Rhinelander
  • Passing phantasms : rhinelander and ontological insecurity
  • Imagining racial agency
  • Practicing problematization : resignifying race.

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