Racial Imperatives Discipline, Performativity, and Struggles against Subjection

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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Main Author Ehlers, Nadine
Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published New York Indiana University Press 2012
Edition1
Subjects
20th century
African American Studies
African Americans
Blacks
Case studies
Cultural norms
Discipline
Ethnic Studies
HISTORY
Interethnic relations
Jones, Alice Beatrice
Law and legislation
Passing (Identity)
Performative (Philosophy)
Philosophy
Policing
Public opinion
Race
Race discrimination
Race identity
Race relations
Racial discrimination
Racism
Rhetoric
Self
Sexuality
Social History
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Sociology
Trials, litigation, etc
U.S.A
United States
Whites
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ISBN9780253356567
0253356563
0253005361
9780253005366
0253223369
9780253223364

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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter Table of Contents ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Introduction 1: Racial Disciplinarity 2: Racial Knowledges: 3: Passing through Racial Performatives 4: Domesticating Liminality: 5: Passing Phantasms: 6: Imagining Racial Agency 7: Practicing Problematization: NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX Back Matter
  • 6. Imagining Racial Agency 5. Passing Phantasms: Rhinelander and Ontological Insecurity 4. Domesticating Liminality: Somatic Defiance in Rhinelander v. Rhinelander 3. Passing through Racial Performatives 2. Racial Knowledges: Securing the Body in Law Introduction 1. Racial Disciplinarity Acknowledgments Contents Title Page, Copyright, Dedication Cover About the Author Index Notes Bibliography 7. Practicing Problematization: Resignifying Race
  • Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Racial Disciplinarity -- 2 Racial Knowledges: Securing the Body in Law -- 3 Passing through Racial Performatives -- 4 Domesticating Liminality: Somatic Defiance in Rhinelander v. Rhinelander -- 5 Passing Phantasms: Rhinelander and Ontological Insecurity -- 6 Imagining Racial Agency -- 7 Practicing Problematization: Resignifying Race -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y