Racial Formation in the Twenty-First Century

by Daniel Martinez HoSang (Editor), Oneka LaBennett (Editor), Laura Pulido (Editor)

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 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.

Genres: Race, Cultural Studies

390 pages, Paperback

First published August 2, 2012

Reviews

[Drick · Rating 5 out of 5]

A collection of essays following up to Omi and Winant's 1994 classic book on race as a social construct, Racial Formation. In the book the authors show how our conception of race keeps changing (one of Omi and Winant's contentions) and what race means to day. The book then concludes with an essay from Omi and Winant themselves. Excellent text for anyone interested in the latest thought in the field of Race and Ethnic Relations

[Ali Rites · Rating 3 out of 5]

I found it to carry a lot of detail, I wished there was slightly more focus on Latinos since that history is more denied than others. Still, there was valuable information about the sovereignty in marginalized groups and why that offers. Race relations are infected with white supremacy so it gives some insight in how to heal.

[Mills College Library]

305.80097 R121 2012