F 10/15 Du Bois and de Beauvoir cont.; Omi and Winant, “Racial Formation in the United States”

Topic: Is race biological or cultural?

1. In Omi and Winant, what does the Phipps case illustrate about the role of the state in racial identification and the complexity of the concept of race?

2. How do Omi and Winant define race? What two concepts of race do they criticize and why?