Article Reviews
In the introduction of this article, the authors provide their definition of race and claim that other definitions explaining it as an essence or an illusion are not adequate. Race, according to the authors, should be an element of social structure. They establish the perspective and theory of racial formation as an approach to understanding race. Their argument and evidence presented provides a valid explanation of race and racism that is more applicable today than those explanations provided in the past.
I also agree with the authors’ contention that race is created by a process of social and historical process that they define in two steps and that it is learned and representative of our history. Finally, the authors content that the United States began as a racial dictatorship. Based on the history of our country and merely a glance at the construction of the United States Constitution and the real struggles that followed in the Civil War, this is true. Racism based on domination is a political phenomenon of our country. It began and still is about structural domination. The authors make a valid and logical analysis of racism in America.
Cartographies of Struggle
This article is an evaluation and interpretation of the struggle of women in third world countries. The author rests on the belief that the struggles of women in third world countries is similar to that of struggles relating to race, colonialism, imperialism, and capitalism 196 and it all has a political basis not a biological or cultural basis . I am of the opinion that the argument proposed is not sufficient as it lacks substance and validity.
Rethinking Racism
References
Bonilla-Silva, E. (1996). Rethinking Racism: Toward a Structural Interpretation. American Sociological Review, 465-480.
Mohanty, C. T. (n.d.). Cartographies of Struggle: Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism.
Omi, M., & Winant, H. (n.d.). Racia Formation.
