Rethinking racial formation theory: a systemic racism critique
Rethinking racial formation theory: a systemic racism critique
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DOI：
10.1080/01419870.2012.669839
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发表时间：
2013-06-01
影响因子：
2.5
通讯作者：
Elias, Sean
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作者：
Feagin, Joe;Elias, Sean
在对美国种族主义的理论分析中，我们从系统种族主义理论的批判性角度考察了尾井裕美和霍华德·维南特有影响力的种族形成理论的贡献和不足。通过对两个理论框架中重要概念和论点的分析，我们发现种族形成理论不能充分解释：种族意义和白人种族框架；美国社会的种族基础；美国国家和其他种族争论的场所；白人和白人精英在当代种族主义中的中心地位；对种族多元化民主的挑战；以及群体对种族主义的抵制，特别是黑人激进分子的思想传统。我们发现，种族形成理论提供了一些超越过时的主流种族/同化理论的创新概念，但形成理论缺乏充分理解美国系统性种族主义的深层基础、分层复杂性和制度化运作的概念工具。
In this theoretical analysis of US racism, we examine contributions and deficiencies of Michael Omi and Howard Winant's influential racial formation theory from the critical perspective of systemic racism theory. Analysing important concepts and arguments in both theoretical frameworks, we demonstrate that racial formation theory inadequately explains: racial meanings and white racial framing; US society's racial foundation; the US state and other sites of racial contestation; whites' and white elites' centrality in contemporary racism; challenges to a racially pluralistic democracy; and group resistance to racism, especially that of the black radical' intellectual tradition. We find racial formation theory provides some innovative concepts that move beyond outdated mainstream ethnicity/assimilation theories, but that formation theory lacks the conceptual tools for fully understanding the deep foundation, layered complexities, and institutionalized operations of systemic racism in the USA.