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Love And Architecture: Race, Nation, And Gender Performances Inside And Outside The State, Angela P. Harris
Love And Architecture: Race, Nation, And Gender Performances Inside And Outside The State, Angela P. Harris
Cleveland State Law Review
In this essay, I will use the metaphor of "performance" to describe the complicated interplay of power and identity. Each of the essays in this Cluster, I suggest, is concerned with some facet of identity performance within the power fields of gender, race, and nation. Perry calls our attention to how skin color, though typically subsumed by "race" in legal discourse, is a resource for performing identity that in fact complicates our understanding of racial subordination. Nancy Ehrenreich and Nicholas Espiritu are concerned with how states mobilize individual and collective race and gender performances as a way of inciting and …