Omi And Winant Racial Formation Case Study

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In the Omi and Winant’s Racial Formation, it started out the chapter 4 with the count ruling of Phipps’ race to illustrate “both deep involvement of the state in the organization and interpretation of race, and the inadequacy of state institutions to carry out these functions.” “Having lived her whole life thinking that she was white.” This further proven the fact that race is imposed from other dominant force. In this case, the dominant force is the state. I agree that racial legacies of the past continue to shape the present. The old social structure that place definition and boundary on race shape the way individual and organization look at it. I think the fact that state is deeply involved in defining race relate to Weber when he talk
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