INTRODUCTION: Racial Formation in the United States Part I: PARADIGMS OF RACE: eTHNICITY, CLASS, AND NATION 1. Ethnicity 2. Class 3. Nation Part II: RACIAL FORMATION 4. The Theory of Racial Formation 5. Racial Politics and the Racial State Part III: RACIAL POLITICS SINCE World War II 6. The Great Transformation 7. Racial Reaction: Containment and Rearticulation 8. Colorblindness, Neoliberalism, and Obama CONCLUSION: The Contrarieties of Race
Michael Omi is Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies and Associate Director of the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society at the University of California, Berkeley.
Howard Winant is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Winant is the founding director of the University of California Center for New Racial Studies (UCCNRS), a MultiCampus Research Program Initiative.
Omi and Winant have revised their classic book to foreground a new
understanding of race as a master category and to present new
arguments about the importance of social movements. A great book is
now even better!- George Lipsitz, Black Studies, University of
California, Santa BarbaraIn keeping with the foundational idea that
race is formed and re-formed in different eras, locations, and
situations, Omi and Winant have substantially revised their classic
treatise on the subject to better address the "racial formation" of
the early 21st century. From realms as far apart as claims of
neuro-imaging hard-wired racism to a fierce critique of post-racial
ideologies, the authors have successfully taken on the immensely
challenging task of explaining how these recent developments fit
into ever-morphing structures of racial domination. In so doing,
this new edition sustains the book’s stature as an enduring
contribution to theories of social stratification.-Troy Duster,
Sociology, University of California BerkeleyThis book retains all
of the vitality of its initial edition. It is an important work
that will solidify the authors’ well deserved reputations. -Lani
Guinier, Harvard University Law SchoolMichael Omi and Howard Winant
have substantially revised their classic work Racial Formation in
the United States for the ‘post-Obama’ age. They argue in
compelling detail that civil rights organizing ignited the 1960s
insurgencies among women and sexual minorities, and they conclude
that the central recognition of identity politics – that ‘the
personal is political’ – has been ‘the single most enduring
contribution of the anti-racist movement.’ Omi and Winant deftly
engage with recent critical writings on neoliberalism, on the body,
on intersectionality, and on the relationship between structural
racism and racial identity as experienced in daily life. At the
same time, they retain their jargon-free, accessible writing style,
adding new historical and theoretical syntheses that will make this
an ideal text for undergraduate courses in race, ethnicity,
history, political theory, and democracy in America. There are many
new intellectual riches in this third edition. Racial Formation in
the United States is an indispensable book for understanding how
race persists in an ostensibly ‘post-racial’ nation."
-Angela P. Harris, University of California, DavisMichael Omi and
Howard Winant’s Racial Formation in the United States is a landmark
contribution to our understanding of the way race is created,
transformed, and permeates every aspect of our daily lives. There
is no other scholarly work on racial formation that has had a wider
and more lasting impact on various academic fields than this
canonical book. The publication of its third edition promises to
extend its scholarly impact to new heights. It has fundamentally
changed the way we understand race and racism in the United
States.-Tomas Almaguer, Latina/o Studies, San Francisco State
University, and author of Racial Fault Lines: The Historical
Origins of White Supremacy in the California
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