Abstract
We might consider race in accordance with Judith Butler's useful conception of gender as constructed in terms of a corporeal style; in this sense the racialized body is also made meaningful through "the legacy of sedimented acts rather than a predetermined or foreclosed structure, essence or fact, whether natural, cultural, or linguistic". The particular ways in which we perceive, interpret, and value racial difference in the United States today can be understood as a kind of 'performance' that takes its significance from not one but, in fact, many layers of social meaning that history has deposited on bodies. Some of these meanings are determined by racist ideologies disguised as "natural" or "biological" hierarchies of difference, "punitively regulated cultural fictions that are alternately embodied and disguised under duress"; others present somewhat more optimistic possibilities for racial performance.
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