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 into conversation to show how race is a form
of discipline, that race is performative, and that all racial
identity can be seen as performative racial passing. She tests
these claims through an excavation of the 1925 "racial fraud" case
of Rhinelander v. Rhinelander and concludes by considering the
possibilities for racial agency, extending Foucault s later work on
ethics and "technologies of the self" to explore the potential for
racial transformation."
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