086 - Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities Invited Session. Racial Theory in the 21st Century: Where We Were, Where We Are, and Where We Need to Be

Session Submission Type: Paper Session

Abstract

After years of sterility, racial theory was revived in the 1970s by Ture and Hamilton's work on institutional racism, Omi and Winant's work on racial formation in the 1980s, the work of Crenshaw and Hill-Collins on intersectionality, Feagin's work on systemic racism and Bonilla-Silva's racialized social system approach in the 1990s. In this session, these theorists will ponder the strengths/weaknesses of their theories, and forecast what is needed to advance racial theory in the 21st century.

Sub Unit

• Section Invited

Session Organizer

• Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Duke University

Presenters

• Evelyn Nakano Glenn, University of California-Berkeley

• Howard Winant, Univ. of California-Santa Barbara

• Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Duke University

• Michael Omi, University of California-Berkeley