...Racial 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...

...we must regard racial formations as a continuum. Racial formation, according to Omi and Winant, is a "sociohistorical process by which racial categories are created, inhabited, transformed and destroyed."7 Racial formations are therefore not natural, they are constructed by societies to affirm...

...States: From the 1960s to the 1990s (1994) and David Introduction Hollinger's Postethnic America (1995). Omi and Winant define racial formation as a "socio-historical...categories are created, inhabited, transformed, and destroyed."61 Racial formations do their ideological work through historically situated racial projects...

...and symbolizes social conflicts and interests by referring to different types of human bodies." It is a "sociohistorical process by which racial categories are created, inhabited, transformed, and destroyed (Omi and Winant 1994:55). While people may interchange or confuse the concepts of ethnicity...

...the changing historical contours of race by treating it not as a universal and static ideology, but as a "sociohistorical process by which racial categories are created, inhabited, transformed, and destroyed" (1994: 55). They further signal the necessity of situating such formations within the precise...

...and Japanese communities. 30. In their highly influential study, Omi and Winant define racialization as a "sociohistorical process by which racial categories are created, inhabited, transformed, and destroyed." Michael Omi and Howard Winant, Racial Formation in the United States from the 1960s to...

...reinforcing racial hierarchies. According to Michael Omi and Howard Winant, racialization constitutes a "sociohistorical process by which racial categories are created, inhabited, transformed, and destroyed." ' This essay examines how public health professionals in the United States expanded understandings...

...sociocultural approach. Sociologists (Omi & Winant, 1994) who began such an analysis of race have analyzed race as a "sociohistorical process by which racial categories are created, inhabited, transformed, and destroyed" (p. 55). Racial formation, they argue, "is a process of historically situated projects in...

...mystifying the practice of racism. For example, Omi and Winant's widely touted text (1994) focuses on racism as a "sociohistorical process" by which racial categories are created, inhabited, transformed, and destroyed, which they refer to as "racial formation." They define racism as "a fundamental characteristic...