... This chapter is a close study of different notions of identity, recognizing in particular the development of system identity. While social identity is an identity continually renegotiated through linguistic interactions and social performances, bureaucratic identity—glimpsed in passports...

... social identity bureaucratic identity system identity ...

... differentiating realms. Separations of cultural and neutral accents; of social, bureaucratic, and system identities; of diurnal body and nocturnal work; and of economic, social, and physical knowledge production are briefly discussed to illuminate divergent tracks and independent itineraries of different realms...

... laws by focusing on the evidence residents were requested to produce to demonstrate their ivoirité. Identity documents, such as birth certificates, nationality certificates, passports, and national identity cards, were systemically viewed as false or fraudulent for a particular class of citizens...

.... This chapter traces the terrain of parenting challenges, children’s identity struggles, encounters between children and the juvenile justice system, racism, emerging youth culture, and cultural assimilation navigated from 2009 to 2012 by the young adults who formed SBYAM. parenting assimilation...

... Chapter 1 disrupts the overwhelming focus on the white/Black binary that helped structure the systems of racial classification, segregation, and discrimination in South Africa. The chapter explores legal and missionary documents, government papers, and census records beginning in 1865 until...

... Drawing on the memoirs of two male actors in the commercial Parsi theater of the early twentieth century, this chapter queries the construction of womanhood, religious identity, and autobiography itself. Planted in vernacular, largely oral, systems of communication and knowledge, these artists...

... Historians and sociologists have mapped the racial dimensions of the emergent culture of control, with its bloated prison system and far-flung surveillance techniques. This chapter draws out the sexual dimension, emphasizing how the figure of the imperiled child stands at center stage...

...Fugitive Socialities and Alternative Futures This essay argues that decolonization entails a rethinking of existing social analytics and genealogies of empire. It calls attention to the shifting imperial mandates that racial and sex and gender regimes—as conjoined systems of producing...

...Probing the Present Dalit writers and critics argued in the 1980s and the 1990s that they were denied recognition in the Telugu public sphere on the basis of caste identities. Yet they now seek recognition in that sphere on the basis of their caste identities. Dalit claims to self...

... industry in Hawai‘i becomes a colonial system that effaces indigenous history, place-names, and imposes a specific narrative about Hawaiian identity, violating the critical relationships Kānaka Maoli have to ke kai today. he‘e nalu surf tourism tourist fantasy colonialism Hawaiian place-names ...

... Chapter 3 further develops the concept of seascape epistemology as an embodied and emotional ontology for Kanaka Maoli, which involves an engagement with ke kai in such a way that indigenous identity becomes mobile as the body merges with the fluid ocean. This ocean-body assemblage joins...

... Chapter 6 engages interracial intimacies and racially hybrid identities through the work of Joel Augustus Rogers. Frantz Fanon is offered as a vindicationist interlocutor through the lineage of Négritude. Linking antebellum interracial violences with the evolution of the carceral state...

..., nationality certificates, passports, and national identity cards, were systemically viewed as false or fraudulent for a particular class of citizens. An Ivorian policy of “authenticity” enhanced the political power of particular individuals, and identity challenges were enacted in discrete circumstances...

... This chapter discusses Togolese who apply for the U.S. Diversity Visa lottery. More Togolese per capita apply for the Green Card lottery than those from any other African country, and winners attempt to game the system by adding “spouses” and dependents to their dossiers, reinventing kinship...

... This chapter shows how by applying a more complex and accurate understanding of power, our attention is turned from winning legal recognition through civil rights reforms to understanding how the gender binary is enforced in administrative systems. The chapter focuses on three key...

... and witness of the femicides that plagued Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico. witnessing violence nacrotrafficking gender Kelly Lytle Hernández explores the rise of the criminal justice and immigration control systems that frame the caste of outsiders. Reaching back to the forgotten origins...

... with in the concept of social identity. Examining the elision between political liberalism (queer freedom) and economic liberalism (free trade) in PRC and ROC political discourses, this chapter argues that the Cold War ideological construction of Marxist and liberal economies translates into a developmentalist...