... it first emerged and applying it to racial politics today in the age of Barack Obama. It then discusses the problems that racial formation theory was initially designed to address before turning to some contemporary analyses of changing U.S. racial dynamics and their implications, along with new patterns...

... that his presidency engenders, not only for a white hegemony founded on “post-racial” politics but also for sovereign violence legitimized under the global umbrella of the expanded U.S. national security state. “new racism” Omi and Winant O’Dell Jack Omi Michael and Howard Winant racial formation theory...

...This ethnographic study animates the racial politics that underlie genomic research into type 2 diabetes, one of the most widespread chronic diseases and one which affects ethnic groups disproportionately. The book follows blood donations from “Mexican American” donors to laboratories...

..., it delivers supporting evidence that Los Angeles is a key place to study racial politics while also providing the basis for broader discussions of multiethnic America. Students, faculty, and interested readers will gain an understanding of the different forms of cultural borrowing and exchange that have...

... up and down both coasts and across much of the Midwest. “Jim Crow” names a defining crux of American racial politics and culture. This book looks at how race has always been intertwined with space in the United States. It also discusses how Jim Crow signs were produced, reproduced, and made visible...

... welfare services Catholic Charities Enriched by Their Presence folk model Italian immigrants neoliberal rationalities self reliance Vietnamese Americans Yanagisako Sylvia displacements border camps racial politics class politics technologies foreign policy racial bipolarism orientalism...

...This book explores racial politics in multiethnic Los Angeles, and particularly the relationships and interactions between Latinas/os and African Americans in the city. It looks at the complexities, ambivalences, and cultures of coexistence that mediate and shape Brown and Black life...