...social structure and representation, the authors introduce the concept of "racial projects," defined as "simultaneously an interpretation, representation...explanation of racial dynamics, and an effort to re-organize or redistribute resources along particular racial lines" (56). That is, racial projects are competing...

...purely ideological construct), does matter. They stress that racial projects — ideological work that is "simultaneously an interpretation, representation,...redistribute resources along particular racial lines" — pervade every aspect of American life, from the social and political to the cultural.3 Since the...

...human bodies and social structures are represented and organized (p. 56; emphasis in original). Thus [a] racial project is simultaneously an interpretation,...or explanation of racial dynamics and an effort to reorganise and redistribute resources along particular racial lines (p. 56', emphasis in original)....