SOC 473 Lecture 5: OMI AND WINANT
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What is race: one extreme is race as an essence, fixed, concrete, objective, other extreme is race as mere illusion, ideological construct, which can be eliminated. 1. how do omi and winant define the concept of (cid:858)race(cid:859)? (cid:894)p. (cid:1007)(cid:1008)9(cid:895) why ca(cid:374) we (cid:374)ot just dispe(cid:374)se with the concept of race altogether? (cid:1006). What is the political spectrum of racial formation? (pp. 350-352: how does racial formation operate at the level of everyday experience? (p. 352) Summarize the history of the formation of modern racial thinking. (pp. How do they use this concept to explain the role of racism in modern politics? (pp.
