Selected European Groups and White Racialization: An Illustrative Study Cover Image

Одбрани европски групи и белата расизација: Илустративна студија
Selected European Groups and White Racialization: An Illustrative Study

Author(s): Cynthia Levine-Rasky
Subject(s): Social differentiation, Politics and Identity, Identity of Collectives
Published by: Институтот за општествени и хуманистички науки – Скопје
Keywords: Whiteness; racialization; USA; Jews; Irish; Roma; Italian;

Summary/Abstract: In the foundation they lay for the now well-established claim that race is a social construction, Omi and Winant (1994) define racial formation as “the sociohistorical process by which racial categories are created, inhabited, transformed, and destroyed.” Racialization thus refers to the process through which racial categories emerge through socio-political relations to achieve domination of subdominant groups. It infers both subjective experience and material consequences for groups. Conventionally associated with Black, Asian, Aboriginal, and other “minority” populations, racialization is not associated with White, European groups.

  • Issue Year: 5/2006
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 143-157
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: English, Macedonian