Michael Omi is associate professor of Asian American Studies and Ethnic Studies. He received an A.B. in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley and a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Along with Howard Winant, he is the author of Racial Formation in the United States (2nd edition, 1994) and numerous articles on racial theory and politics. He has also written about right-wing political movements (Shifting the Blame: Ideology and Politics in the Post-Civil Rights Era, Critical Sociology, Fall 1992); Asian Americans and race relations ("Out of the Melting Pot and Into the Fire: Race Relations Policy," in The State of Asian Pacific America: Policy Issues to the Year 2020 (1993); and race and popular culture ("In Living Color: Race and Popular Culture," in Ian H. Angus and Sut Jhally, eds., Cultural Politics in Contemporary America (1989). He teaches courses on the history of Asians in America, on Asian American politics and political movements, and on racial theory and politics. In 1990, he was the recipient of Berkeley's Distinguished Teaching Award.

Michael Omi, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California Berkeley

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