Racial Formation in the United States: From the 1960s to the 1990s (Critical Social Thought)

Racial Formation in the United States: From the 1960s to the 1990s (Critical Social Thought)

Michael Omi

Language: English

Pages: 240

ISBN: 0415908647

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


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.

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Only does the articulation of a new racial ideology involve the recombination of pre-existent meanings and identities, but it also draws on quite hetérodox and unexpected sources.40 The disorganization of the dominant racial ideology, the construction of a new set of racial meanings and identities, the transi- tion from political project to oppositional movement, is a complex, uneven process, marked by considerable instability and tension. Change is being demanded, but any change in the.

Constituency.4 A pluralistinterestgroup framework replaces grass-roots opposition as the main organizational dynamic. For example, civil rights workers in the South during the 1960s were continually frustrated in their efforts to obtain Justice Department protection for their efforts, frequently asking why the US government was so willing to defend democracy in Vietnam but so slow to do so in Mississippi. In such a form the demand for federal protection was ominous, for it linked issues which.

Right feeds on discontent, anger, insecurity, and resentment, and flourishes on backlash politics.32 Much has been written about the new rights tendency to focus on controversial social issuesas a meansof rallying and organizing its constituency. Left and progressive analyseshave argued that the defining project of the new right is the reassertion of patriarchy by attacking the limited gains of the feminist and gay movements.33 While much of this is true, such analyses understate the crucial.

Books, 1975!, chapter 1. Many other examplescould be cited. It is essentialto destroy the widespread prejudice that philosophy is a strange and difficult thing just becauseit is the specific intellectual activity of a particular category of specialistsor of professional and systematicphilosophers. It must first be shown that all men [sic] are philosophers, by defining the limits and characteristicsof the "spontaneous philosophy which is proper to everybody. This philosophy is contained in: 1.

Racially exclusive groups merged and composed multiracial organizations, parties or pre-parties. The LRS, for example, wasformed by a merger of the I Wor Kuen, an Asian American largely Chinese American! group, with the August Twentyninth Movement, a largely Chicano group. Other M-L organizations began as white new left groups and have sinceincorporated substantial numbers of minority members: the Revolutionary Communist Party, Communist Labor Party, and the Democratic Workers Party. Thesegroups.

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