Michael Omi & Howard Winant's Racial Formation Theory Practice Questions And Complete Answers.
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Race & racial formation and what shapes it - correct answer "the process by which social, economic, and political forces determine the content and importance of racial categories, and by which they are in turn shaped by racial meanings"
Race must be regarded ...
Michael Omi & Howard Winant's Racial
Formation Theory
Race & racial formation and what shapes it - correct answer "the process by which
social, economic, and political forces determine the content and importance of racial categories, and by
which they are in turn shaped by racial meanings"
Race must be regarded as the "central axis" of social relations: the most important category of identity.
Hegemonic racial orders and how they are maintained and resisted - correct answer
• White working class = free, ambitious, poor but upwardly mobile
• Black = slave, servile, forever poor
• Coercion: the practice of persuading someone to do something by using force or threats.
• Consent: permission for something to happen or agreement to do something.
Racial essentialism - correct answer The idea that supposedly natural and
immutable differences separate the races
Racial projects; racist & non-racist racial projects (examples) - correct answer "no
white man would ever do certain kinds of work (such as taking care of cattle, or getting water or wood
to be used in the house)
Relationships between race and class - correct answer
Racial formation in early and late civil rights era - correct answer
Post-civil rights era: characteristics of
contemporary racism, the politics of the 'New Right' and why it has become resurgent - correct answer
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