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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ehlers, Nadine.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jones, Alice Beatrice.

Passing (Identity).

Discipline.

Philosophy.

Race--Philosophy.

Race.

United States--Race relations.

United States.

Race relations.

African Americans--Race identity.

African Americans.

White people--Race identity.

White people.

Racism--United States.

Racism.

Race discrimination--Law and legislation--United States.

Race discrimination.

Race discrimination--Law and legislation.

Discipline--Philosophy.

Performative (Philosophy).

Jones, Alice Beatrice--Trials, litigation, etc.

Passing (Identity)--United States--Case studies.

Genre:

Case studies.

Trials, litigation, etc.

Trial and arbitral proceedings.

Physical Description:

x, 184 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2012]

Summary:

Nadine Ehlers examines the constructions of blackness and whiteness cultivated in the imaginary of the United States 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 places the work of Michel Foucault, Judith Butler's account of performative, and theories of race into conversation to show how race is a form of discipline, that race is performative, and that all racial identity can be seen as performative racial passing. She tests these claims through an excavation of the 1925 "racial fraud" case of Rhinelander v. Rhinelander and concludes by considering the possibilities for racial agency, extending Foucault's later work on ethics and "technologies of the self" to explore the potential for racial transformation. Book jacket.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780253356567

0253356563

9780253223364

0253223369

9780253005366

0253005361

OCLC:

707212800