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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ehlers, Nadine.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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--Philosophy.

Race.

Discipline--Philosophy.

Discipline.

Performative (Philosophy).

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

Passing (Identity).

United States--Race relations.

United States.

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

Jones, Alice Beatrice.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (198 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 places the work of Michel Foucault, Judith Butler's account of performativity, and theories of race

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:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613582362

9781280487132

1280487135

9780253005366

0253005361

OCLC:

795894550