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Racializing Identity: Performance, Pedagogy, and Regret

California State University, Los Angeles

This performative article/script serves as an extended functional definition and a practical exploration of the notion of "racializing identity." Through a series of individually labeled autopoetic movements, the performative article/script creates a typology that compares and analyzes the foci of each form, facilitating the definition and exposing the socially constructed intersection between race and Black queer identity. The performative article/script begins to question the limitations of race as a specified method of categorizing bodies and more specifically questions the conceptualization of "performing race" as a sign of racial authenticity.

Key Words: racialization • performative writing • performing race • Black gay identity • Black performance studies

Cultural Studies <=> Critical Methodologies, Vol. 4, No. 1, 12-27 (2004)
DOI: 10.1177/1532708603251810


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