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Michael Omi

Sociology

#323

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#407

Historical Rank

#153

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Michael Omi's Degrees

PhD Sociology University of California, Berkeley
Masters Sociology University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Sociology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Michael Omi is an American sociologist, writer, scholar, and educator. Omi has served on the faculty at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the Associate Director of the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society. Omi is best known for developing the theory of racial formation along with Howard Winant. Omi's work includes race theory, Asian American studies, and antiracist scholarship.

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Michael Omi's Published Works

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Racial formation in the United States : from the 1960s to the 1980s (1988) (4348)
Racial formation in the United States (1986) (3806)
Racial Formations (2022) (63)
Situating Asian Americans in the Political Discourse on Affirmative Action (1996) (47)
Racial Identity and the State: The Dilemmas of Classification (1997) (44)
Racial Formation (2020) (36)
Thinking Through Race and Racism (2009) (35)
Resistance is futile?: a response to Feagin and Elias (2013) (33)
Once More, with Feeling: Reflections on Racial Formation (2008) (29)
Shifting the Blame: Racial Ideology and Politics in the Post-Civil Rights Era (1991) (21)
Racial Formation Rules (2012) (16)
“Slippin’ Into Darkness”: The (Re)Biologization of Race (2010) (16)
The Los Angeles "Race Riot" and Contemporary U.S. Politics (1993) (12)
Blinded by Sight: The Racial Body and the Origins of the Social Construction of Race (2016) (11)
Asian-Americans: The Unbearable Whiteness of Being?. (2008) (11)
Fish head soup and other plays (1995) (10)
Conclusion: Racial Formation Rules: Continuity, Instability, And Change (2019) (9)
Thinking Theory in Asian American Studies. (1995) (9)
(E)racism: Emerging Practices of Antiracist Organizations (2020) (7)
Asian American Studies: An Annotated Bibliography and Research Guide (1989) (4)
Introduction: Racial Formation in the United States (2014) (3)
CHAPTER 2: The Unbearable Whiteness of Being The Contemporary Racialization of Japanese/ Asian Americans (2017) (3)
Rethinking the Language of Race and Racism (2001) (2)
Dear CS Editors (2009) (2)
Teaching, Situating, and Interrogating Asian American History (1996) (1)
Colorblindness, Neoliberalism, and Obama (2014) (1)
Book Review: The Declining Significance of Race (1980) (1)
Racial Politics and the Racial State (0)
Racial Identity and the State: Contesting the Federal Standards for Classification (2021) (0)
Sociology (1989) (0)
Racial Transformations: Latinos and Asians Remaking the United States (2007) (0)
Thinking Orientals: Migration, Contact, and Exoticism in Modern America (review) (2003) (0)
Book Review: Molina, How Race is Made in America: Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts, by Michael Omi (2015) (0)
Civil Rights and Social Wrongs: Black-White Relations Since World War II (1997) (0)
Racial Reaction: Containment and Rearticulation (2014) (0)
America Classifies the Immigrants: From Ellis Island to the 2020 Census. By Joel Perlmann. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2018. Pp. viii+451. $45.00. (2019) (0)
CONTRIBUTORS (2003) (0)
The Quality, Role and Effectiveness of the Haas BETA Program: Final Evaluation (2003) (0)

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