Description
Book SynopsisDiscusses formations of blackness and whiteness in US culture
Trade Review[T]his project fills a major gap in both Critical Race and Foucault studies. It will undoubtedly be cited and engaged for years to come.
* Critical Philosophy of Race *
Racial Imperatives is a strong tome with a great deal of value across disciplines. Building on her previous scholarly investigations and relying on a robust scholarship to push intellectual boundaries, Ehlers's work is insightful and thought provoking. . . . Scholars that study race in any academic discipline would benefit from the ideas and analysis in this book.
* Spectrum *
Racial Imperatives . . . is a thoughtful and provocative contribution to the literature of discipline, performativity, and agency as they relate to race.
* Foucault Studies *
In Racial Imperatives Nadine Ehlers explores the idea that racial identity is a construct both performed by individuals and maintained by the law. . . [Raises] interesting ideas, particularly that 'all identity is a form of passing,' and that all subjects . . . must continually enact their racial identities.June 2015
* Journal of American History *
Table of ContentsIntroduction
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
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