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UNINA9910785793903321 |
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Autore |
Ehlers Nadine |
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Titolo |
Racial imperatives [[electronic resource] ] : discipline, performativity, and struggles against subjection / / Nadine Ehlers |
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Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2012 |
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ISBN |
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1-280-48713-5 |
9786613582362 |
0-253-00536-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (198 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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African Americans - Race identity |
White people - Race identity |
Racism - United States |
Race discrimination - Law and legislation - United States |
Race - Philosophy |
Discipline - Philosophy |
Performative (Philosophy) |
Passing (Identity) - United States |
United States Race relations |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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, |
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