Michael Omi And Winant Racial Formation

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The reading that I chose for this assignment is “Racial Formations” by Michael Omi and Howard Winant. The main argument of this piece is that race needs to be understood as an unstable complex of social meanings that is constantly changing due to political struggle. Omi and Winant discuss that race consciousness is mainly a modern phenomenon, and unlike old thought, the concept of race has defied biological definition. Social scientists only accept race to be a social concept that is shaped by broad societal forces: race is given meaning from the historical context and the social relations in which it’s in. It is a concept that is always changing with time and between different societies. We as a people in the United States use race as a way