Annotated Bibligography

The source that I’m thinking about using for my next essay is Racial Formation by Omi and Winant. The main idea of this book is that although race is continuously being changed it still has major effects on political and social history. It speaks of color blind vs. color conscious society. We are a color conscious society and up until till now we have always been. It talks about how races other than whites have been oppressed one way or another. Omi and Winant talk about how race is not biological and has been created as a way to organize social structures. I think this source will be very useful in my second essay because in the book Untouchable, India has its own caste system that suppressed people at the bottom. It has has to do with the racial formation and the social structure that has been applied to organize the “different” types of classes. Bakha, the main character in Untouchable, life and social struggles are based around the racial formation applied in his life.  The goal of this source is to focus on the way racial formation influences the way we categorize people and use it to our own advantage. I think this source fits well into my research because Untouchable shows exactly how racial formation is used in social structures.