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Sunera Thobani Exalted Subjects: Studies in the Making of Race and Nation in Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007, 384 p.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2014

Kerri A. Froc
Affiliation:
Department of Law, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON

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Copyright © Canadian Law and Society Association 2008

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References

4 For examples of theorists using this “post-intersectionality” or “multidimensionality” framework, see Hutchinson, Darren Lenard, “Identity Crisis: ‘Intersectionality,’ ‘Multidimensionality,’ and the Development of an Adequate Theory of Subordination,” Michigan Journal of Race and Law 6 (2001): 285316Google Scholar; Ehrenreich, Nancy, “Subordination and Symbiosis: Mechanisms of Mutual Support Between Subordinating Systems,” University of Missouri at Kansas City Law Review 71 (2002): 251324Google Scholar; Kwan, Peter, “Jeffrey Dahmer and the Cosynthesis of Categories,” Hastings Law Journal 48 (1997): 1257–92Google Scholar.

5 See, e.g., Razack, Sherene, Dark Threats and White Knights: The Somalia Affair, Peacekeeping, and the New Imperialism (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004)Google Scholar; McClintock, Anne, Imperial Leather: Race, Gender and Sexuality in the Colonial Context (New York: Routledge, 1995)Google Scholar; Nagel, Joane, “Masculinity and Nationalism: Gender and Sexuality in the Making of Nations,” Ethnic and Racial Studies 21 (1998): 242–69CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

6 See McClintock, Imperial Leather, on this “naturalizing” effect of patriarchy; for the use of this phrase see Cooper, Frank Rudy, “Race, Sex and Working Identities: Against Bipolar Black Masculinity: Intersectionality, Assimilation, Identity Performance and Hierarchy,” UC Davis Law Review 39 (2006): 853904Google Scholar, there speaking of the common interest of singly and multiply subordinated groups in defeating this structuring of society.