Racial Formation Theory Practice Guide Questions With 100% Verified Answers.
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OMI.
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OMI.
What is Race? - correct answer Omi: Race is a concept which signifies and symbolizes social conflicts and interests by referring to different types of human bodies. (NOT essence/fixed OR ideological only)
Racial formation - correct answer ...
Racial Formation Theory
What is Race? - correct answer Omi: Race is a concept which signifies and
symbolizes social conflicts and interests by referring to different types of human bodies. (NOT
essence/fixed OR ideological only)
Racial formation - correct answer the sociohistorical process by which racial
categories are created, inhabited, transformed, and destroyed
Omi argues that racial formation is - correct answer a process of historically situated
projects in which human bodies and social structures are represented and organized.
Racialization - correct answer The process by which those in the dominant white
group, especially its elites, have defined and constructed certain groups as being racially inferior or
superior for the purposes of societal placement and of group enrichment, segregation, or oppression
Racial formation linked to the evolution of - correct answer hegemony (the way in
which society is ruled and organized)
Racial projects - correct answer Is simultaneously an interpretation, representation,
or explanation of racial dynamics, and an effort to reorganize and redistribute resources along particular
racial lines.
Political spectrum of racial formation - correct answer Neoconservative (Where the
state is "color blind" and the significance of race is denied); liberal (The significance of race is affirmed,
leading to an "activist" state policy)
racial formation as - correct answer macro-level social process; everyday experience
evolution of race as a concept - correct answer The distinction between groups of
people goes back all the way through history, but it wasn't until the Europeans traveled to the Americas
that a "modern conception of race" occurred (first racial formation project)
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