Michael Omi and Howard Winant’s
Racial Formation in the United States remains one of the most influential books and widely read books about race.
Racial Formation in the 21st Century, arriving twenty-five years after the publication of Omi and Winant’s influential work, brings together fourteen 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 contributors 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 influential theory of racial formation and adapt it to the various criticisms, challenges, and changes of life in the twenty-first century.
Tabella dei contenuti
List of Illustrations
Introduction
Daniel Martinez Ho Sang and Oneka La Bennett
Part I. Racial Formation Theory Revisited
1. Gendering Racial Formation
Priya Kandaswamy
2. On the Specificities of Racial Formation: Gender and Sexuality in the Historiographies of Race
Roderick A. Ferguson
3. The Transitivity of Race and the Challenge of the Imagination
James Kyung-Jin Lee
4. Indigeneity, Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy
Andrea Smith
Part II. Racial Projects and Histories of Racialization
5. The Importance of Being Asian: Growers, the United Farm Workers, and the Rise of Colorblindness
Matthew Garcia
6. The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Black): Legal and Cultural Constructions of Race and Nation in Colonial Latin America
Michelle A. Mc Kinley
7. Race, Racialization, and Latino Populations in the United States
Tomás Almaguer
8. Kill the Messengers: Can We Achieve Racial Justice without Mentioning Race?
Gary Delgado
9. The New Racial Preferences: Rethinking Racial Projects
Devon W. Carbado and Cheryl I. Harris
Part III. War and the Racial State
10. ‘We didn’t kill ’em, we didn’t cut their head off’: Abu Ghraib Revisited
Sherene H. Razack
11. The ‘War on Terror’ as Racial Crisis: Homeland Security, Obama, and Racial (Trans)Formations
Nicholas De Genova
12. Racial Formation in an Age of Permanent War
Nikhil Singh
Conclusion. Racial Formation Rules: Continuity, Instability, and Change
Michael Omi and Howard Winant
Bibliography
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Index
Circa l’autore
Daniel Ho Sang is Associate Professor of Political Science and Ethnic Studies at the University of Oregon. His first book, Racial Propositions: Ballot Initiatives and the Making of Postwar California (UC Press), won the James A. Rawley Prize of the Organization of American Historians. Oneka La Bennett is Associate Professor of Africana Studies at Cornell University and is the author of She’s Mad Real: Popular Culture and West Indian Girls in Brooklyn. Laura Pulido is Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. Among her books is Black, Brown, Yellow, and Left: Radical Activism in Los Angeles and A People’s Guide to Los Angeles, (UC Press).
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