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Surveillance And Identity Performance: Some Thoughts Inspired By Martin Luther King, Frank Rudy Cooper
Surveillance And Identity Performance: Some Thoughts Inspired By Martin Luther King, Frank Rudy Cooper
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In this article, Professor Frank Cooper explores self-actualization, the process whereby people create their own identity by means of experimenting with different behaviors, in the context of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the FBI surveillance he was subjected to in the time leading up to his death. He argues that it is possible for people to live in an environment that is more or less alienating to the way in which they perform their identities. Performativity scholars such as Devon Carbado and Mitu Gulati say that people can have an internal sense of self that is distinct from the identity …