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In the post-civil rights era, critics on the right have indicted liberal social policies for exacerbating the very problems of racism and poverty they purport to alleviate. In vastly distinct ways, the far right and neoconservatism have attempted to reshape popular conceptions and scholarly wisdom about race and racial equality. They have targeted the liberal state of the 1960s and 1970s as the cause of a new racially unjust order and fueled the resentment of many white Americans to liberal social policy. Despite the ascendancy of the far right and neoconservatism in the 1980s, the Reagan-Bush years have not witnessed the consolidation of a new "common sense" with respect to race and racial policy. In the wake of the riots in Los Angeles and other cities, an opening for a renewed debate is apparent.

Twenty years since the publication of the Second Edition and more than thirty years since the publication of the original book, Racial Formation in the United States now arrives with each chapter radically revised and rewritten by authors Michael Omi and Howard Winant, but the overall purpose and vision of this classic remains the same: Omi and Winant provide an account of how concepts of race are created and transformed, how they become the focus of political conflict, and how they come to shape and permeate both identities and institutions. The steady journey of the U.S. toward a majority no

Recent historical developments invalidate any belief in a steady improvement in race relations in the US. The Left's response to this situation is weakened by the lack of an adequate analysis of racial problems within Marxism. Traditional Marxist approaches have treated SC as essential, & race as epiphenomenal; neo-Marxist approaches treat race as mediating SC relationships, while the hegemony approach interprets SCs as political projects but still considers SC fundamental. A theory of racial formation is needed to supplement theories of SC formation. Racial identity is a product of racial ideology shaped by a hegemonic racial order; races, like SCs, are political projects. The state in the US is inherently racial; it does not intervene in race relations from outside but emerges out of them. Race & SC both exist in US society as separate axes of stratification, though in some situations one encompasses the other; the formation of the US Wc was, to a large degree, a project of white workers' racial self-organization against nonwhites. 54 References. W. H. Stoddard.

Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Michael Omi, Dana Y. Nakano, and Jeffrey T. Yamashita -- Part I. Sustaining Community -- 1. "We've Got Team Spirit!": Ethnic Community Building and Japanese American Youth Basketball Leagues / Christina B. Chin -- 2. Millennial Understandings of Nikkei Seishin in San Jose Japantown / Lisa Hirai Tsuchitani -- 3. To Be Yonsei in Southern California: Persistent Community as Postsuburban Minority Culture of Mobility / Dana Y. Nakano -- Part II. Spiritualities -- 4. Redefining "Camp" in Protestant Japanese America / Dean Ryuta Adachi -- 5. Religious Nones? Increasing Unaffiliated and Christian Religiosity among Japanese American Millennials / Brett J. Esaki -- 6. "I Am Trailblazing": Young Adult Japanese American Shin Buddhists Negotiating Complex Identities / Chenxing Han -- Part III. Redefining Ethnicity -- 7. Of Transgression: Zainichi Korean Immigrants' Search for Home(s) and Belonging / Kyung Hee Ha -- 8. Millennial Shin-Issei Identity Politics in Los Angeles / Aki Yamada -- Part IV. Intersecting Identities -- 9. Mixed-Race Japanese American Millennials: Millennials or Japanese Americans? / Rebecca Chiyoko King-O'Riain -- 10. The New Second Generation: Biculturalism and Transnational Identities among Japanese American Shin-Nisei / Takeyuki Tsuda -- 11. Techie, Gender Queer, and Lesbian: Interview with Shin-Nisei Mioi Hanaoka / Amy Sueyoshi -- Part V. Crossing and Bridging Boundaries -- 12. Japanese American Millennials in Contemporary Japan / Jane H. Yamashiro -- 13. Questioning the "World": Millennial Generation Okinawan American Identity Matters / Wesley Iwao Ueunten -- 14. Uniting Hapas: The Global Communities of Mixed-Race Nikkei on YouTube / Lori Kido Lopez -- Contributors -- Index.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Universal Freckle, or How I Learned to Be White -- ''The Souls of White Folks'' -- The Mirage of an Unmarked Whiteness -- White Racial Projects -- The ''Morphing'' Properties of Whiteness -- ''White Devils'' Talk Back: What Antiracists Can Learn from Whites in Detroit -- Transnational Configurations of Desire: The Nation and its White Closets -- Perfidious Albion: Whiteness and the International Imagination -- The New Liberalism in America: Identity Politics in the ''Vital Center'' -- How Gay Stays White and What Kind of White It Stays -- (E)racism: Emerging Practices of Antiracist Organizations -- Moving from Guilt to Action: Antiracist Organizing and the Concept of ''Whiteness'' for Activism and the Academy -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index

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

In America's Urban Crisis and the Advent of Color-blind Politics, Ivery and Bassett combine their own experience in the field of civil rights with contributions of urban studies experts to provide an overview of scholarship on the urban underclass. This look into the modern racial politics of America's cities encourages readers not only to be aware of inequalities, but to engage in efforts to change them