...symbolizes social conflicts and interests by referring to different types of human bodies. . . . We define racial formation as the sociohistorical process...are created, inhabited, transformed, and destroyed" (p. 55, emphasis in original). They define racism thus: "A racial project can be defined as racist...

...Statistical Overview," 8. 6 As defined by Michael Omi and Howard Winant, "racial formation" refers to "the sociohistorical process by which racial categories...are created, inhabited, transformed, and destroyed." Further, "[f]rom a racial formation perspective, race is a matter of both social structure and cultural...

...Winant (1994), perhaps, is the exemplar of this approach. This study's notion of racial formation - "the sociohistorical process by which racial categories...are created, inhabited, transformed and destroyed" (p. 55) - clearly implicates mass media as an important player in the construction and reproduction...

...historical contexts. Race is defined through social, political, and economic processes and institutions. Omi and Winant define racial formation as "the sociohistorical...are created, inhabited, transformed, and destroyed" (1994, 55). They see race as a central axis of social relations that cannot be subsumed under broader...

...40. Royce, California, p. 364. 41. Omi and Winant, Racial Formation, p. 72. 42. In Racial Formation, Omi and Winant define racial formation "as the sociohistorical...are created, inhabited, transformed, and destroyed" (55). 43. Ahnaguer, Racial Fault Lines, p. 57. 44. Ibid., pp. 65-68. 45. I borrow the term national...

...illusion. These perspectives inform the theoretical approach we call racial formation. Racial Formation We define racial formation as the sociohistorical process...are created, inhabited, transformed, and destroyed. Our attempt to elaborate a theory of racial formation will proceed in two steps. First, we argue that...

...same way European Americans have). Omi and Winant offer a racial formation theory that they define as 'the sociohistorical process by which racial categories...are created. inhabited. transformed and destroyed [It] is a process of historically situated projects in which human bodies and social structures are...

...Formation in the United States, they reinvent racialization as "racial formation" defining it as "a sociohistorical process by which racial categories...are created, inhabited, transformed, and destroyed. . . . [R]acial formation is a process of historically situated projects in which human bodies and social...

...observe the statistical universe as scientific outsiders. Notes Introduction 1. Michael Omi and Howard Winant "define racial formation as the sociohistorical...are created, inhabited, transformed, and destroyed" (Racial Formation in the United States: From the 1960s to the 1990s [New York: Routledge, 1994], 55)....

...whereas they see ethnicity as 'a matter of cultural attributes' shared by a particular group, they 'define racial formation as the sociohistorical process...are created, inhabited, transformed, and destroyed'. (Omi and Winant, Racial Formation in the United States from the 1960s to the 1990s, Routledge 1994,...