[Organizational (Performance] of Race): The Co-Constitutive Performance of Race and School Board in Durham, NC

Abstract

This essay addresses the co-constitutive performance of race and organization through a close reading of two racially divided Durham, NC school board meetings that took place in 2005. The analysis is grounded in an analytical framework that treats performance as organizing and organization as performance. We demonstrate how conflict over the “proper” performance of a school board, as either a business emphasizing efficiency or a public service emphasizing efficacy, is simultaneously a negotiation of racialized subject positions. Our analysis illustrates how racial identities are made meaningful in a contemporary context, as racial identities are taken up, mapped onto, and resisted by individuals and their bodies.

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