Racial Formation in the Twenty-First Century
Daniel Martinez HoSang, Oneka LaBennett, and Laura Pulido
Abstract
Michael Omi and Howard Winant's Racial Formation in the United States remains one of the most influential and widely read books about race. This book, arriving twenty-five years after the publication of Omi and Winant's influential work, brings together thirteen essays by leading scholars in law, history, sociology, ethnic studies, literature, anthropology and gender studies to consider the past, present and future of racial formation. The chapters explore far-reaching concerns: slavery and land ownership; labor and social movements; torture and war; sexuality and gender formation; indigineity ... More
Michael Omi and Howard Winant's Racial Formation in the United States remains one of the most influential and widely read books about race. This book, arriving twenty-five years after the publication of Omi and Winant's influential work, brings together thirteen essays by leading scholars in law, history, sociology, ethnic studies, literature, anthropology and gender studies to consider the past, present and future of racial formation. The chapters explore far-reaching concerns: slavery and land ownership; labor and social movements; torture and war; sexuality and gender formation; indigineity and colonialism; genetics and the body. From the ecclesiastical courts of seventeenth-century Lima to the cell blocks of Abu Grahib, the essays draw from Omi and Winant's racial formation theory and adapt it to the various criticisms, challenges, and changes of life in the twenty-first century.
Keywords:
race,
racial formation theory,
slavery,
gender formation,
social movements,
torture,
war,
sexuality,
colonialism,
genetics
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2012 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780520273436 |
| Published to California Scholarship Online: September 2016 |
DOI:10.1525/california/9780520273436.001.0001 |
