In this article, we combine the theory of racial formation with the geographical study of environmental justice and point to the ways racial formations are also environmental.
Finally, African American feminists have expressed deep concern over the trend of turning to African American women's literature such as Toni Morrison's Beloved to uncover gender and racial formation in psychoanalytic terms.
He is the author of The World Is a Ghetto and (with Michael Omi) Racial Formation in the United States.
What I overlooked was that even though they read these texts on histories of racial formation, they continued to resist articulating a race-sensitive reading of The Wire.
"I think it's really important to note," he added, "that though people of color are overrepresented in private prisons relative to public prisons, and though companies like CCA and GEO don't necessarily explicitly try to ensure that there's a specific racial composition of their prisons, [private prisons] partake in a larger project of racial formation in the US".
Racial coastal formation's potential makes way for radical transformation in climate change science not only in coastal areas, but other spaces as situated territorial racial formations.
Despite a complex history of biological essentialism in the presentation of racial typologies, the notion of a genetic basis to racial difference has been largely discredited; the criteria different societies (at different times) use to organize and hierarchize "racial formations" are political and contingent (Omi and Winant 1986).
A zealous advocate for reproductive and sexual rights, Olajuawon-Wilson also speaks regularly about HIV criminalization, vulnerability, critical love ethics and access to power within and across racial formations.
There've been books written about the fetishization of Irish-Americanness and the swirl of weird racial identity formation that produced that ethnicity here.
We examine vulnerability to sea-level rise through the process of racial coastal formation on Sapelo Island, Georgia, specifically analyzing its deep history, the uneven racial development of land ownership and employment, and barriers to African American participation and inclusion in adaptation planning.
Here, text helps construct understandings of the world that builds social realities (e.g., social relations, class categories, gender fractions, and racial groupings), state formations (e.g., economic programs, fiscal policies, and government redistributive schemes), and material realities (e.g., landscapes, cities, neighborhoods, and nations).
