SOC 1500 Lecture 2: Omi and Winant
Document Summary
Race is structural, not a matter of individual preferences. Neither illusion nor essence (center or true nature) Race is social structural: holding up society, how society is organized. Race matters and is consequential because it is how society is organized. Racial identifications reference powerful and deeply structured social positions. Structures of race reciprocally shape ideas of race. Racial projects articulate links between racial structures and meanings. Trying to change the way people understand the social structures: shift racial meaning and how it is embedded in social structures. Can impose racial domination or anti-racist insurgency. Racial projects are enacted in structural context i. e. redistricting for one way is a racial project: seek to maintain or revise racial structure, about an intervention into a specific relationship between structures and ideas. Racial projects comprise racial formation: racial formation: racial structures are relatively fixed as an outcome of past processes.
