{"id":14032,"date":"2011-05-29T20:58:42","date_gmt":"2011-05-29T20:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=14032"},"modified":"2011-07-31T04:27:51","modified_gmt":"2011-07-31T04:27:51","slug":"retroactive-phantasies-discourse-discipline-and-the-production-of-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=14032","title":{"rendered":"Retroactive phantasies: discourse, discipline, and the production of race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1080\/13504630802088219\" target=\"_blank\">Retroactive phantasies: discourse, discipline, and the production of race<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.informaworld.com\/smpp\/title~db=all~content=t713445719\" target=\"_blank\">Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.informaworld.com\/smpp\/gotoissue~db=all~content=a793293067\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 14, Issue 3<\/a> (2008)<br \/>\nPages 333-347<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1080\/13504630802088219\">10.1080\/13504630802088219<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/explore.georgetown.edu\/people\/ne33\/?PageTemplateID=262\" target=\"_blank\">Nadine Ehlers<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor of Women\u2019s and Gender Studies<br \/>\n<em>Georgetown University<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The present inquiry considers how the practice and notion of race can be figured as a type of discipline that functions to achieve the subjection of the individual\u2014to form the individual as a racial subject. Focusing on the constructions of blackness and whiteness within US racial rhetoric, and engaging the work of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michel_Foucault\" target=\"_blank\">Michel Foucault<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Judith_Butler\" target=\"_blank\">Judith Butler<\/a>, I propose that racial identity is a retroactive phantasy that is always conditional on the subject enacting the very power that marks them: the formation and maintenance of subjectivity is premised on the individual being formed and forming themselves in relation to a normalized identity site and is, thus, always an action. Precisely due to this necessity to act, and to the incoherence of power, innovative acts of anti-discipline re-negotiate the ways in which racial subjectivity is lived and realized.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.informaworld.com\/smpp\/ftinterface~content=a793293067~fulltext=713240930~frm=content\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retroactive phantasies: discourse, discipline, and the production of race Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture Volume 14, Issue 3 (2008) Pages 333-347 DOI: 10.1080\/13504630802088219 Nadine Ehlers, Assistant Professor of Women\u2019s and Gender Studies Georgetown University The present inquiry considers how the practice and notion of race can be figured as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,125,1196,8,6941,20],"tags":[1384,1064,6458,6467,6466],"class_list":["post-14032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-identitydevelopment","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-philosophy","category-usa","tag-judith-butler","tag-michel-foucault","tag-nadine-ehlers","tag-nation-and-culture","tag-social-identities-journal-for-the-study-of-race"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}