...fascinating sociological example of what Michael Omi and Howard Winant (1994l call racial formation, or the "sociohistorical process by which racial categories...created, inhabited, transformed, and destroyed" (p. 55l. The galvanization of a collective identity by multiracial Asian Americans within and across shifting...

...to the 1990s, 1d ed. (New York: Routledge, 1994), 56, 79. 59. Omi and Winant def1ne racial formation "as the sociohistorical process by which racial categories...are created, inhabited, transformed, and destroyed" (55). 60. Almaguer, Racial Fault Lines, 57. 61. Ibid., 65-68. 61. In Roaring Camp, Johnson suggests...

...ed. Asian Women United (Boston: Beacon Press, 1997), xi. 30 Omi and Winant define "racial formation" as "the sociohistorical process by which racial categories...are created, inhabited, transformed, and destroyed." They further clarify that this is "a process of historically situated projects in which human bodies...

...the result of natural or divine, and thus unchangeable, forces. Omi and Winant define racialformation as the "sociohistorical process by which racial categories...are created, inhabited, transformed, and destroyed" (55). Racial formation, they argue, is a process of historically situated racial projects in which...

...explain how racial dynamics are developed in a society is racial formation. We define racial formation as the sociohistorical process by which racial categories...created, inhabited, transformed, and destroyed.... [W]e argue that racial formation is a process of historically situated projects in which human bodies...

...hegemony.12 The sociologists Michael Omi and Howard Winant have described the concept of racial formation as "the socio-historical process by which racial categories...are created, inhabited, transformed, and destroyed." Additionally, racial formation "is a process of historically situated projects in which human bodies...

...Making Americans, 4-5. 2o. Omi and Winant (Racial Formation, 55) specifically define "racial formation" as the "sociohistorical process by which racial categories...are created, inhabited, transformed, and destroyed." 21. See, for example, Skowronek, Building a New American State. Critical race scholars, on the other...

...social organization and cultural meaning in the United States. Omi and Winant define racial formation as "the sociohistorical process by which racial categories...are created, inhabited, transformed, and destroyed" (Omi and Winant 1994:55). One of the key concepts in the racial formation perspective is the "racial...

...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 and race,...

...racial formation captures the extent to which race is an active process: "We define raciaf formation as the sociohistorical process by which racial categories...created, inhabited, transformed, and destroyed" (p. 55). They write: From a racial formation perspective, race is a matter or both social structure and cultural...