In her work, Perry discusses how to construct intertextuality or contextuality in the law to respect and enhance racial equality. She identifies many solutions to this question, but I would like to focus on three of them. First of all, Perry suggests that rigorous requirements be established for the interdisciplinary work of law and cultural studies. These requirements should support a structure that allows for the compilation of divergent materials into a single entity.
To this end, she proposes a definition of interdisciplinary structural analogies in which ideological correspondences between fields of study are the lens through which the objects of a dispute between contexts can be distinguished. Intertextuality thus explains both the qualitative and quantitative aspects of the work. Perry’s second solution is to devote the work to a cultural analysis of law and its cultural and ethical theories. In this way, a shift in focus from politics to ethics in law and cultural studies is proposed, allowing for a more expansive consideration of the racial problem. Moreover, politics often describe only a tiny part of publicly relevant issues.
A third solution is to separate opinions and behavior about the status quo. On the one hand, it should still be criticized and reformed, and on the other hand, it is worth continuing to actively shape the ethical discourse that is the basis for practice. These decisions are a mixture of qualitative interpretive and qualitative objective approaches. The author emphasizes an ethical interpretation of intertextual work while, for example, calling for an objective shift in policy.
In addition, the explanation of decisions is quite extensive, which makes it difficult to assign them to one approach. All of the solutions proposed by Imani Perry correlate well with the ethical rap theory we have studied in class. She emphasizes ethics as a significant transition point in studying mass inequality toward interdisciplinarity. In addition, Perry describes the ethical challenges that will have to be faced in implementing intertextuality.