Racial imperatives
Subtitle: discipline, performativity, and struggles against subjection
By: Nadine Ehlers
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9780253356567; 9780253223364; 9780253005366
Subjects: Discipline; Race relations; Law and legislation; Race identity; Whites; African Americans; Philosophy; Racism; Race; Performative (Philosophy); Trials, litigation; Race discrimination; Passing (Identity); Case studies
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Racial Disciplinarity; title: Racial Knowledges : Securing the Body in Law; title: Passing through Racial Performatives; title: Domesticating Liminality : Somatic Defiance in Rhinelander v. Rhinelander; title: Passing Phantasms : Rhinelander and Ontological Insecurity; title: Imagining Racial Agency; title: Practicing Problematization : Resignifying Race.