Michael A. Omi, Ph.D.
Affiliations: | 1987 | Sociology | University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States |
| 1988- | Sociology | University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States |
Website:
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"Michael Omi"Bio:
Michael Omi is the co-author of Racial Formation in the United States, a groundbreaking work that transformed how we understand the social and historical forces that give race its changing meaning over time and place. The 3rd edition of the book was released in 2015.
Since 1995, he has been the co-editor of the book series on Asian American History and Culture at Temple University Press. From 1999 to 2008, he served as a member and chair of the Daniel E. Koshland Committee for Civic Unity at the San Francisco Foundation. Since 2002, he has served on the Project Advisory Board on “Race and Human Variation” for the American Anthropological Association that resulted in the current traveling museum exhibit, Race: Are We So Different?, which has been displayed in over 35 cities throughout the United States.
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Parents
Sign in to add mentor| Ronald Takaki | grad student | 1986 | UC Santa Cruz (PoliSci Tree) | |
| (Dissertation committee member) | ||||
Children
Sign in to add trainee| Aaron Gullickson | grad student | ||
| Chris Rhomberg | grad student | 1991 | UC Berkeley |
| Hana Brown | grad student | 2011 | UC Berkeley |
Collaborators
Sign in to add collaborator| Howard Winant | collaborator | 1986 | UC Santa Cruz | |
| (Co-author of Racial Formation in the United States) | ||||
Publications
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| Omi M, Winant H. (2016) Blinded by Sight: The Racial Body and the Origins of the Social Construction of Race Law and Social Inquiry-Journal of the American Bar Foundation. 41: 1062-1068 |
| Omi M. (2015) Book Review: Molina, How Race is Made in America: Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts, by Michael Omi Pacific Historical Review. 84: 384-385 |
| Omi M, Winant H. (2013) Resistance is futile?: A response to Feagin and Elias Ethnic and Racial Studies. 36: 961-973 |
| Omi M, Winant H. (2009) Dear CS Editors Contemporary Sociology. 38: 498-498 |
| Omi M. (1991) Shifting the Blame: Racial Ideology and Politics in the Post-Civil Rights Era Critical Sociology. 18: 77-98 |
| Omi M, Winant H. (1988) Racial formation in the United States : from the 1960s to the 1980s Political Science Quarterly. 103: 158 |
| Driver ED, Hunter HM, Abraham SY, et al. (1988) Oliver C. Cox and Others: The World System and Racial Formation@@@Race, Class, and the World System: The Sociology of Oliver C. Cox.@@@Racial Formation in the United States: From the 1960s to the 1980s.@@@In Pursuit of Power: Southern Blacks and Electoral Politics, 1965-1982.@@@The New Black Middle Class.@@@Gunnar Myrdal and Black-White Relations: The Use and Abuse of "An American Dilemma," 1944-1969. Contemporary Sociology. 17: 280 |
| Omi M. (1980) Book Review: The Declining Significance of Race: The Declining Significance of Race, by William Julius Wilson. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1978 Critical Sociology. 10: 118-122 |