Frizzly Studies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4873809 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Daniel J Sharfstein (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 518-529 |
| Publication date | 2013-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Common Knowledge (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0961-754X • E-ISSN: 1538-4578 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/0961754x-2281810 |
| OpenAlex | W1987506617 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 21 |
Beginning with the assumption that race is a conceptual blur, this contribution to the Common Knowledge symposium "Fuzzy Studies" argues that race conflates what is plain to see with something that is invisible. Race roots today's policy decisions in a remote and often imagined past. It blurs agency and overwhelming structural inequality. It is a set of categories that people define for themselves and that, at the same time, others - strangers, neighbors, government officials - relentlessly impose upon them. For four hundred years, the meaning of racial categories in North America has remained unstable. A central question underlying the history of race in the United States is how people could acknowledge the incoherence of racial categories while still structuring their lives, communities, politics, and culture around the idea of race. At a fundamental level, race has functioned as a set of rules and rights-and legal entitlements and disabilities are a primary source of meaning for racial categories. The law provides a starting point for understanding how there could be so much consensus regarding such a blur. Legal decision making is itself a process that blurs what is objective and subjective, scientific and social, precise and penumbral. Taken together, the pervasive fuzziness of race and law ensured the resilience of clear and definable regimes of discrimination and hierarchy
Critical race theory · Epistemology · Law and economics · Linguistics · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Gender Studies · Law · Race, History, and American Society
Slaves without masters
The shaping of Southern politics
Trouble in mind
Been in the storm so long
Roll, Jordan, roll
Law as Process
The Secret History of Race in the United States
Crystals and Mud in Property Law
The World They Made Together
White Women, Black Men
Many Thousands Gone
On the Pagan (Non-Mahometan) Populations of the Indian Archipelago, with Special Reference to the Colour of Their Skin, the Texture of Their Hair, and the Import of the Term Harafura
Common Ground
The law recognizes racial instinct”
The Devil's Lane
Whiteness, Racism, and Identity
States' Laws on Race and Color
"Origins of the New South" and the Negro Question
Slave Patrols
The Jews of Morocco
Physical Anthropology of the Jews Ii.-pigmentation
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |