Racial imperatives : discipline, performativity, and struggles against subjection / Nadine Ehlers.

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

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 criti...

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Main Author: Ehlers, Nadine
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2012]
Series:UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Global cultural studies collection.
Subjects:
Jones, Alice Beatrice > Trials, litigation, etc.
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 > Case studies.
United States > Race relations.
dissertations.
Academic theses.
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