Contact:

 

Phone
(510) 643-8744

Email
omi@berkeley.edu

 


 

Michael Omi

Michael Omi is Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley and the co-author of Racial Formation in the United States. His major research and fields of interest include the social construction of race and racial categories, structural racism and anti-racist movements, and the sociology of Asian Americans.

Select Publications

“Racial Formation in the United States: From the 1960s to the 1990s, 2nd ed., with Howard Winant, Routledge, 1994 (1st ed., 1986).

“The Changing Meaning of Race,” in America Becoming: Racial Trends and Their Consequences,” Neil Smelser, William Julius Wilson, and Faith Mitchell, eds., Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 2001.

“(E)racism: Emerging Practices of Antiracist Organizations,” in The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness,” Birgit Brander Rasmussen, Eric Klinenberg, Irene J. Nexica, and Matt Wray, eds., Duke University Press, 2001.

“'Who Are You Calling Asian?': Shifting Identity Claims, Racial Classifications, and the Census,” (with Yen Espiritu) in The State of Asian Pacific America : Transforming Race Relations, Paul M. Ong, ed., Los Angeles : LEAP Asian Pacific American Public Policy Institute and UCLA Asian American Studies Center, 2000.

 

 

 

 

    

 


Website courtesy of The Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics