The problem that Warren (communication studies, Bowling Green State U., Ohio) addresses is how to locate the mechanisms in place that might illuminate a way of seeing how the body in general, and racial identity in particular, is constituted and reconstituted in everyday communicative interaction. He articulates an integrated approach to the body that looks at racial identity as an ongoing performative accomplishment. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)