num_pages: 240
description: First published in 1986, Racial Formation in the United States is now considered a classic in the literature on race and ethnicity. This second edition builds upon and updates Omi and Winant's groundbreaking research. In addition to a preface to the new edition, the book provides a more detailed account of the theory of racial formation processes. It includes material on the historical development of race, the question of racism, race-class-gender interrelationships, and everyday life. A final chapter updates the developments in American racial politics up to the present, focusing on such key events as the 1992 Presidential election, the Los Angeles riots, and the Clinton administration's racial politics and policies."…required reading for scholars engaged in historical, sociological, and cultural studies of race. In the new edition, the authors further develop their provocative theory of 'racial formation' and extend their political analyses into the 1990s. They introduce the concept of 'racial project', linking race as representation with race as it is embedded in the social structure." -- Angela Y. Davis
language: English
title: Racial Formation in the United States: From the 1960s to the 1990s
titlecomplete: Racial Formation in the United States: From the 1960s to the 1990s
genres: History, Philosophy, Sociology, Race, Anti Racist, American History, Nonfiction, Theory, Academic, Politics
ratings_count: 1237
publisher: Routledge