Michael Omi’s excerpt on “Racial Formation” addresses how race developed over time, in terms of its concept, meaning, and our understanding of it in the context of society and politics. Throughout the text Omi expands on the true complexity of racial formation and challenges how we think about race in what it seems like every way possible. He makes us realize there is complexity to how people constructed racial identity. He also showed us how this has evolved to create social structures that represent inequality and injustice based on race. The author’s excerpt addresses many strong arguments to support his theory, like racial projects and the connection race has to society and politics, but some of his suggestions lead me to question or even
