{"id":54489,"date":"2017-07-13T01:34:46","date_gmt":"2017-07-13T01:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=54489"},"modified":"2017-07-13T01:34:46","modified_gmt":"2017-07-13T01:34:46","slug":"unsettling-intersectional-identities-historicizing-embodied-boundaries-and-border-crossings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=54489","title":{"rendered":"Unsettling intersectional identities: historicizing embodied boundaries and border crossings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1080\/01419870.2017.1303171\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Unsettling intersectional identities: historicizing embodied boundaries and border crossings<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/toc\/rers20\/current\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ethnic and Racial Studies<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/toc\/rers20\/40\/8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Volume 40, Issue 8 (2017)<\/a><br \/>\npages 1312-1319<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1080\/01419870.2017.1303171\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">10.1080\/01419870.2017.1303171<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/iris.ucl.ac.uk\/iris\/browse\/profile?upi=AAPHO81\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Ann Phoenix<\/strong><\/a>, Professor of Psychosocial Studies<br \/>\n<em>University College London, United Kingdom<\/em><\/p>\n<p>At a time when the pace of global change has led to unprecedented shifts in, and unsettling of, identities, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sscnet.ucla.edu\/soc\/faculty\/brubaker\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brubaker<\/a> brings \u201ctrans\/gender\u201d and \u201ctrans\/racial\u201d creatively into conversation to theorize the historical location of identity claims and to examine the question of whether identities are optional, self-consciously chosen and subject to political claims rather than biologically pre-given. His main argument is that the distinction between sex and gender allows us to construct gender identity as personal, individual and separate from the (biologically) sexed body. In contrast, other people always have a stake in allowing or challenging identity claims to racial identity. Brubaker\u2019s argument is persuasive. However, he treats both race and sex\/gender as solipsistic and neglects the wider social context that has produced the conditions of possibility for the entrenched differences he records. An intersectional approach would have deepened his discussion of the place of categories in \u201ctrans\u201d arguments.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1080\/01419870.2017.1303171?journalCode=rers20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a time when the pace of global change has led to unprecedented shifts in, and unsettling of, identities, Brubaker brings \u201ctrans\/gender\u201d and \u201ctrans\/racial\u201d creatively into conversation to theorize the historical location of identity claims and to examine the question of whether identities are optional, self-consciously chosen and subject to political claims rather than biologically pre-given.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,125,8,6462],"tags":[677,461,24225],"class_list":["post-54489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","tag-ann-phoenix","tag-ethnic-and-racial-studies","tag-rogers-brubaker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54489","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=54489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54490,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54489\/revisions\/54490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}