Higgins, Kathleen Marie2011-01-042011-01-042017-05-112011-01-042011-01-042017-05-112010-08August 201http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2010-08-1738textI develop a feminist critique of three features in contemporary views of race: the meaning of race is essentially biological; each of us has exactly one kind of racial identity; and our racial identities are permanent. Having revealed each of these features to be confusions about the language of racial identification, I contend that our racial concepts currently permit a wider range of racial identifications than we currently acknowledge. Finally, I critically evaluate the political and ethical ramifications of treating race as a unified, permanent identity. Resistance to systems of racial and gendered oppression should challenge our identities as unified and permanent.application/pdfengRaceEthicsSocial resistanceIdentity politicsPolitics of differenceRacial identitythesis2011-01-04