Performative Decolonization
Critical Performance Ethnography, Rize and the Battle to Articulate Race
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12628417 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rachel N Hastings (0000-0003-1696-8449, corresponding author), Philosophy Documentation Center |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 41-60 |
| Publication date | 2009-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Radical Philosophy Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1388-4441 • E-ISSN: 1569-1659 |
| Publisher | Philosophy Documentation Center (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.5840/radphilrev2009121/24 |
| OpenAlex | W2329135039 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
The montage of personal and social identities displaved in the documentary Rize indicate that there are multiple historical, psychological, and performative responses to racialized conditions. This essay analyzes how the body is used as an instrument of resistance against a society that operates within and among racial symbol systems. Drawing upon critical ethnography and race philosophies, this essay suggests David LaChapelle's examination of Krump dancers is a process of performative decolonization. To begin, Rize is articulated as a project representative of critical performance ethnography. Next, a discussion of thegenesis of race as a political instrument of oppression is offered. In conclusion, an analysis of the dialectal tension between the spiritual and material realms within the documentary Rize is discussed
Aesthetics · Decolonization · Performative utterance · Political science · Sociology · Cinema and Media Studies · Law · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.23 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2013 - 2025 (13) |
| Highly cited | No |