Racial imperatives [[electronic resource] ] : discipline, performativity, and struggles against subjection / / Nadine Ehlers

• Autore: Ehlers Nadine
• Pubblicazione: Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (198 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.800973
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto geografico: United States Race relations
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Racial imperatives
• ISBN: 1-280-48713-5; 9786613582362; 0-253-00536-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910785793903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II