Racial Imperatives - Discipline, Performativity, and Struggles Against Subjection

Informationen zum Autor Nadine Ehlers Klappentext Nadine Ehlers is Assistant Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at Georgetown University. Zusammenfassung Discusses formations of blackness and whiteness in US culture Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Nadine Ehlers
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.05.2012
• EAN: 9780253223364
• ISBN: 978-0-253-22336-4
• No. of pages: 200
• Series: Indiana University Press (IPS)
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore; Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte, Bezug zu Afro-Amerikanern, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies