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The Transitivity of Race and the Challenge of the Imagination

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2020

James Kyung-Jin Lee
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While sociologists generally do not deign to assume such a rhetorical mantle, Michael Omi and Howard Winant Suffuse the first edition of Racial Formation with the language of prophecy that they at once fear to articulate and hope to imagine otherwise. “What does the immediate future hold?” they anxiously wonder.

It is unlikely that we shall experience a period of racially based mobilization such as “the great transformation.” The conjuncture in which the 1960s racial upsurge occurred was almost certainly unique. The sophistication of the contemporary racial state and the transformed political landscape as a whole seem to thwart any short-term radical political initiative based in opposition to the racial order. (143)

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Theories and Methodologies
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PMLA , Volume 123 , Issue 5: Special Topic Comparative Racialization , October 2008 , pp. 1550 - 1556
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Copyright © 2008 by The Modern Language Association of America

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