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

...relationships—primarily around the categories of "white" and "other." 7 Omi and Winant define "racial formation" as the "sociohistorical process by which racial categories...are created, inhabited, transformed, and destroyed." They argue that "racial formation is a process of historically situated projects in which human bodies...

...mapping the route from becoming to belonging. Drawing on Omi and Winant's formulation of racial formation as 'the socio-historical process by which racial categories...are created, inhabited, transformed, and destroyed' (2002: 124), I argue that the politics of becoming in the present context, is a project that attempts...

...(second- or subsequent-generation-) immigrants. Chapter 2 1 . Omi and Winant define racial formation as "the socio-historical process by which racial categories...are created, inhabited, transformed, and destroyed" (1994, 55). For studies of racial formation among Asian Americans and Latinos, see Espiritu 1992; Sanchez...

...this shifting set of forces "racial formation" to underscore the way race is most properly understood as the "sociohistorical process by which racial categories...are created, inhabited, transformed, and destroyed." Importantly, a theory of racial formation holds that "race is a matter of both social structure and...

...production and ongoing cultural practices. Michael Omi and Howard Winant argue that racial formation is the "sociohistorical process by which racial categories...are created, inhabited, transformed, and destroyed." 27 Racial formation entails the practice of "group-making" whereby people create, defend, and close...

...and interests by referring to different types of human bodies."92 Their theory of racial formation as "the sociohistorical process by which racial categories are created, inhabited, transformed and destroyed"93 is useful in examining the processes through which the category of foreign labor is constructed...

...and Winant use the term "racial formation" for the social construction of race, more specifically for "the sociohistorical process by which racial categories...are created, inhabited, transformed, and destroyed" (1994:55). I will return to the relationship of ethnicity and race in a moment, but the main point...

...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 the 1980s (New...

...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...