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Racial imperatives : discipline, performativity, and struggles against subjection /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ehlers, Nadine
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2012]
Subjects:
United States > Race relations.
African Americans > Race identity.
Whites > Race identity.
Racism > United States.
Race discrimination > Law and legislation > United States.
Race > Philosophy.
Discipline > Philosophy.
Performative (Philosophy)
Jones, Alice Beatrice > Trials, litigation, etc.
Passing (Identity) > United States > Case studies.
Table of 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.