Michael Omi
Biographic Data
| ID | 202097 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Omi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Omi |
| SIGNATURE | OMI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 76 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Adverse Childhood Experiences and Indigenous Identity: Testing for Aggregation Fallacy in the Multiracial Category
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) predict poor adulthood health. ACEs are most common among American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) and Multiracial groups, two groups that overlap substantially in population. We aimed to determine if the Multiracial population's high mean ACE score differs by those who do and do not identify as AI/AN. We analyzed Waves 1, 3, and 4 (1994-2009) of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (N = …
Racial differences in associations between adverse childhood experiences and physical, mental, and behavioral health
Adjusted associations with asthma and anxiety appear stronger for Multiracial people. Existing ACEs prevention strategies should be tailored to support Multiracial youth and families
Racial Formation
A more effective starting point in the recognition that despite its uncertainties and contradictions, the concept of race continues to play a fundamental role in structuring and representing the social world. From a racial formation perspective, race is a matter of both social structure and cultural representation. To interpret the meaning of race is to frame it social structurally. Conversely, to recognize the racial dimension in social structur…
Racial Formation in the United States
This chapter outlines a theory of race and racism. It explores racial formation as the sociohistorical process by which racial categories are created, inhabited, transformed, and destroyed. The authors elaborate a theory of racial formation in two steps. First, they argue that racial formation is a process of historically situated projects in which human bodies and social structures are represented and organized. Next, they link racial formation …
Racial Formation in the United States
Concepts of race prove to be unreliable as supposed boundaries shift, slippages occur, realignments become evident, and new collectivities emerge. State-imposed classifications of race, for example, face continuing challenges by individuals and groups who seek to assert distinctive racial categories and identities. It is now widely accepted in most scholarly fields that race is a social construction. Restrictive access to economic opportunities a…
Trans-Pacific Japanese American Studies: Conversations on Race and Racializations
Blinded by Sight: The Racial Body and the Origins of the Social Construction of Race
Osagie K. Obasogie's Blinded by Sight: Seeing Race through the Eyes of the Blind (2014) makes important contributions to both to the sociology of law and to critical race studies. The book challenges “colorblind” racial ideology by showing empirically that people who are blind from birth nevertheless “see” race, grasping it as a nearly omnipresent feature of social interaction and social organization. These insights, however, do not diminish the …
Racial Formation in the United States
Twenty years since the publication of the Second Edition and more than thirty years since the publication of the original book, Racial Formation in the United States now arrives with each chapter radically revised and rewritten by authors Michael Omi and Howard Winant, but the overall purpose and vision of this classic remains the same: Omi and Winant provide an account of how concepts of race are created and transformed, how they become the focu…
Resistance is futile: A response to Feagin and Elias
Slippin’ Into Darkness”: The (Re)Biologization of Race
While the dominant mantra in humanities and the social sciences is that “race is a social construction, not a biological one,” in the wake of the Human Genome Project, a vigorous debate has emerged about whether race is indeed a meaningful and useful genetic concept. This essays argues that debates about the very concept of race --- the system of classification we employ, the meanings we ascribe to racial categories, and their use in social analy…
Thinking Through Race and Racism
The candidacy of Barack Obama has led some commentators to proclaim that the United States is now a post-racial society. But recent survey data suggest another story. In late-June 2008, a Washington Post-ABC News poll found that nearly half of all Amer icans thought that race relations were in bad shape and that 3 in 10 acknowledge feelings of racial prejudice (Cohen and Agriesta 2008). And the differences between black and white attitudes were s…
Dear CS Editors
Once More, with Feeling: Reflections on Racial Formation
Our concept of racial formation was advanced in 1986 as a critique of prevailing notions of race in the social sciences. We challenged approaches that treated race as epiphenomenal to supposedly more fundamental axes of stratification and difference: ethnicity, class, and nation. But we were disappointed—depressed, in fact—by the reception our analysis received. Some years would pass before our approach was seriously taken up by sociologists, pol…
Racial Transformations: Latinos and Asians Remaking the United States
Dissatisfaction with the prevailing black/ white paradigm of racial discourse in the United States has been brewing for some time, but few scholarly works have complicated the color line. Racial Transformations is a unique volume that marvelously engages the intersection of Asian American and Latino studies and helps us grasp the distinct patterns of racialization among groups considered neither white nor black. The essays in the volume comparati…
Thinking Orientals: Migration, Contact, and Exoticism in Modern America (review)
In American social and political thought, Asians have been portrayed as either a racial "problem" or as a "solution." Historian Henry Yu persuasively argues that the two representations are intimately linked through their shared evocation of the "Oriental" as a symbol of exotic difference. Thinking Orientals, in a provocative challenge to the dominant black/white understanding of race, reveals "how crucial thinking about Orientals has been to the…
(E)racism: Emerging Practices of Antiracist Organizations
Civil Rights and Social Wrongs: Black-White Relations Since World War II
Journal Article Civil Rights and Social Wrongs: Black-White Relations since World War II. Ed. by John Higham. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997. viii, 223 pp. $28.50, ISBN 0-271-01709-0.) Get access Michael Omi Michael Omi University of California, Berkeley, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 4, March 1999, Pages 1671–1672, htt…
Racial Identity and the State: The Dilemmas of Classification
Professor Kennedy's view is shared by many scientists who believe that there are no meaningful biological differences between members of different races.In a social context, however, racial differences are often dramatic.5.
Teaching, Situating, and Interrogating Asian American History
Journal Article Teaching, Situating, and Interrogating Asian American History Get access Michael Omi Michael Omi Michael Omi is an associate professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California-Berkeley. He is co-author (with Howard Winant) of Racial Formation in the United States (2d. ed., 1994). In 1990, he was the recipient of Berkeley's Distinguished Teaching Award. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Schol…
Situating Asian Americans in the Political Discourse on Affirmative Action
Research Article| July 01 1996 Situating Asian Americans in the Political Discourse on Affirmative Action Michael Omi, Michael Omi Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Dana Y. Takagi Dana Y. Takagi Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Representations (1996) 55: 155–162. https://doi.org/10.2307/3043744 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplement…
Blue Dreams: Korean Americans and the Los Angeles Riots
Asian American Studies: An Annotated Bibliography and Research Guide
Asian American Studies: An Annotated Bibliography and Research Guide. Ed. by Hyung-chan Kim. (Westport: Greenwood, 1989. x + 504 pp. $55.00.) Get access Michael Omi Michael Omi University of California, Berkeley Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1455–1456, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078425 Published: 01 March 1991
Shifting the Blame: Racial Ideology and Politics in the Post-Civil Rights Era
In the post-civil rights era, critics on the right have indicted liberal social policies for exacerbating the very problems of racism and poverty they purport to alleviate. In vastly distinct ways, the far right and neoconservatism have attempted to reshape popular conceptions and scholarly wisdom about race and racial equality. They have targeted the liberal state of the 1960s and 1970s as the cause of a new racially unjust order and fueled the …
Sociology
Oliver C. Cox and Others: The World System and Racial Formation
Thinking Through Race and Racism
The candidacy of Barack Obama has led some commentators to proclaim that the United States is now a post-racial society. But recent survey data suggest another story. In late-June 2008, a Washington Post-ABC News poll found that nearly half of all Amer icans thought that race relations were in bad shape and that 3 in 10 acknowledge feelings of racial prejudice (Cohen and Agriesta 2008). And the differences between black and white attitudes were s…
Situating Asian Americans in the Political Discourse on Affirmative Action
Research Article| July 01 1996 Situating Asian Americans in the Political Discourse on Affirmative Action Michael Omi, Michael Omi Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Dana Y. Takagi Dana Y. Takagi Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Representations (1996) 55: 155–162. https://doi.org/10.2307/3043744 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplement…
Resistance is futile: A response to Feagin and Elias
Slippin’ Into Darkness”: The (Re)Biologization of Race
While the dominant mantra in humanities and the social sciences is that “race is a social construction, not a biological one,” in the wake of the Human Genome Project, a vigorous debate has emerged about whether race is indeed a meaningful and useful genetic concept. This essays argues that debates about the very concept of race --- the system of classification we employ, the meanings we ascribe to racial categories, and their use in social analy…
Shifting the Blame: Racial Ideology and Politics in the Post-Civil Rights Era
In the post-civil rights era, critics on the right have indicted liberal social policies for exacerbating the very problems of racism and poverty they purport to alleviate. In vastly distinct ways, the far right and neoconservatism have attempted to reshape popular conceptions and scholarly wisdom about race and racial equality. They have targeted the liberal state of the 1960s and 1970s as the cause of a new racially unjust order and fueled the …
Blinded by Sight: The Racial Body and the Origins of the Social Construction of Race
Osagie K. Obasogie's Blinded by Sight: Seeing Race through the Eyes of the Blind (2014) makes important contributions to both to the sociology of law and to critical race studies. The book challenges “colorblind” racial ideology by showing empirically that people who are blind from birth nevertheless “see” race, grasping it as a nearly omnipresent feature of social interaction and social organization. These insights, however, do not diminish the …
Dear CS Editors
Civil Rights and Social Wrongs: Black-White Relations Since World War II
Journal Article Civil Rights and Social Wrongs: Black-White Relations since World War II. Ed. by John Higham. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997. viii, 223 pp. $28.50, ISBN 0-271-01709-0.) Get access Michael Omi Michael Omi University of California, Berkeley, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 4, March 1999, Pages 1671–1672, htt…
Teaching, Situating, and Interrogating Asian American History
Journal Article Teaching, Situating, and Interrogating Asian American History Get access Michael Omi Michael Omi Michael Omi is an associate professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California-Berkeley. He is co-author (with Howard Winant) of Racial Formation in the United States (2d. ed., 1994). In 1990, he was the recipient of Berkeley's Distinguished Teaching Award. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Schol…
Oliver C. Cox and Others: The World System and Racial Formation
Oliver C. Cox and Others: The World System and Racial Formation
Sociology
Asian American Studies: An Annotated Bibliography and Research Guide
Asian American Studies: An Annotated Bibliography and Research Guide. Ed. by Hyung-chan Kim. (Westport: Greenwood, 1989. x + 504 pp. $55.00.) Get access Michael Omi Michael Omi University of California, Berkeley Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1455–1456, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078425 Published: 01 March 1991
Shifting the Blame: Racial Ideology and Politics in the Post-Civil Rights Era
In the post-civil rights era, critics on the right have indicted liberal social policies for exacerbating the very problems of racism and poverty they purport to alleviate. In vastly distinct ways, the far right and neoconservatism have attempted to reshape popular conceptions and scholarly wisdom about race and racial equality. They have targeted the liberal state of the 1960s and 1970s as the cause of a new racially unjust order and fueled the …
Blue Dreams: Korean Americans and the Los Angeles Riots
Teaching, Situating, and Interrogating Asian American History
Journal Article Teaching, Situating, and Interrogating Asian American History Get access Michael Omi Michael Omi Michael Omi is an associate professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California-Berkeley. He is co-author (with Howard Winant) of Racial Formation in the United States (2d. ed., 1994). In 1990, he was the recipient of Berkeley's Distinguished Teaching Award. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Schol…
Situating Asian Americans in the Political Discourse on Affirmative Action
Research Article| July 01 1996 Situating Asian Americans in the Political Discourse on Affirmative Action Michael Omi, Michael Omi Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Dana Y. Takagi Dana Y. Takagi Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Representations (1996) 55: 155–162. https://doi.org/10.2307/3043744 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplement…
Racial Identity and the State: The Dilemmas of Classification
Professor Kennedy's view is shared by many scientists who believe that there are no meaningful biological differences between members of different races.In a social context, however, racial differences are often dramatic.5.
Civil Rights and Social Wrongs: Black-White Relations Since World War II
Journal Article Civil Rights and Social Wrongs: Black-White Relations since World War II. Ed. by John Higham. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997. viii, 223 pp. $28.50, ISBN 0-271-01709-0.) Get access Michael Omi Michael Omi University of California, Berkeley, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 4, March 1999, Pages 1671–1672, htt…
(E)racism: Emerging Practices of Antiracist Organizations
Thinking Orientals: Migration, Contact, and Exoticism in Modern America (review)
In American social and political thought, Asians have been portrayed as either a racial "problem" or as a "solution." Historian Henry Yu persuasively argues that the two representations are intimately linked through their shared evocation of the "Oriental" as a symbol of exotic difference. Thinking Orientals, in a provocative challenge to the dominant black/white understanding of race, reveals "how crucial thinking about Orientals has been to the…
Racial Transformations: Latinos and Asians Remaking the United States
Dissatisfaction with the prevailing black/ white paradigm of racial discourse in the United States has been brewing for some time, but few scholarly works have complicated the color line. Racial Transformations is a unique volume that marvelously engages the intersection of Asian American and Latino studies and helps us grasp the distinct patterns of racialization among groups considered neither white nor black. The essays in the volume comparati…
Once More, with Feeling: Reflections on Racial Formation
Our concept of racial formation was advanced in 1986 as a critique of prevailing notions of race in the social sciences. We challenged approaches that treated race as epiphenomenal to supposedly more fundamental axes of stratification and difference: ethnicity, class, and nation. But we were disappointed—depressed, in fact—by the reception our analysis received. Some years would pass before our approach was seriously taken up by sociologists, pol…
Thinking Through Race and Racism
The candidacy of Barack Obama has led some commentators to proclaim that the United States is now a post-racial society. But recent survey data suggest another story. In late-June 2008, a Washington Post-ABC News poll found that nearly half of all Amer icans thought that race relations were in bad shape and that 3 in 10 acknowledge feelings of racial prejudice (Cohen and Agriesta 2008). And the differences between black and white attitudes were s…
Dear CS Editors
Slippin’ Into Darkness”: The (Re)Biologization of Race
While the dominant mantra in humanities and the social sciences is that “race is a social construction, not a biological one,” in the wake of the Human Genome Project, a vigorous debate has emerged about whether race is indeed a meaningful and useful genetic concept. This essays argues that debates about the very concept of race --- the system of classification we employ, the meanings we ascribe to racial categories, and their use in social analy…
Resistance is futile: A response to Feagin and Elias
Racial Formation in the United States
Twenty years since the publication of the Second Edition and more than thirty years since the publication of the original book, Racial Formation in the United States now arrives with each chapter radically revised and rewritten by authors Michael Omi and Howard Winant, but the overall purpose and vision of this classic remains the same: Omi and Winant provide an account of how concepts of race are created and transformed, how they become the focu…
Trans-Pacific Japanese American Studies: Conversations on Race and Racializations
Blinded by Sight: The Racial Body and the Origins of the Social Construction of Race
Osagie K. Obasogie's Blinded by Sight: Seeing Race through the Eyes of the Blind (2014) makes important contributions to both to the sociology of law and to critical race studies. The book challenges “colorblind” racial ideology by showing empirically that people who are blind from birth nevertheless “see” race, grasping it as a nearly omnipresent feature of social interaction and social organization. These insights, however, do not diminish the …
Racial Formation in the United States
This chapter outlines a theory of race and racism. It explores racial formation as the sociohistorical process by which racial categories are created, inhabited, transformed, and destroyed. The authors elaborate a theory of racial formation in two steps. First, they argue that racial formation is a process of historically situated projects in which human bodies and social structures are represented and organized. Next, they link racial formation …
Racial Formation in the United States
Concepts of race prove to be unreliable as supposed boundaries shift, slippages occur, realignments become evident, and new collectivities emerge. State-imposed classifications of race, for example, face continuing challenges by individuals and groups who seek to assert distinctive racial categories and identities. It is now widely accepted in most scholarly fields that race is a social construction. Restrictive access to economic opportunities a…
Racial Formation
A more effective starting point in the recognition that despite its uncertainties and contradictions, the concept of race continues to play a fundamental role in structuring and representing the social world. From a racial formation perspective, race is a matter of both social structure and cultural representation. To interpret the meaning of race is to frame it social structurally. Conversely, to recognize the racial dimension in social structur…
Racial differences in associations between adverse childhood experiences and physical, mental, and behavioral health
Adjusted associations with asthma and anxiety appear stronger for Multiracial people. Existing ACEs prevention strategies should be tailored to support Multiracial youth and families
Adverse Childhood Experiences and Indigenous Identity: Testing for Aggregation Fallacy in the Multiracial Category
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) predict poor adulthood health. ACEs are most common among American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) and Multiracial groups, two groups that overlap substantially in population. We aimed to determine if the Multiracial population's high mean ACE score differs by those who do and do not identify as AI/AN. We analyzed Waves 1, 3, and 4 (1994-2009) of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (N = …
Political science (16 works) · Race, History, and American Society (13 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · History (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Ethnic group (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · History (6 works) · Law (6 works)