Michael Omi and Howard Winant, Racial Formation in the United States: From the 1960s to the 1990s (New York: Routledge, 1994), p. 55. Omi and Winant describe race as "an unstable and 'decentered' complex of social meanings constantly being transformed by political struggle," and they describe racialization as the use of race as a basis for distinguishing among human groups.

DEFINE: Defines race as a decentered complex of social meanings, not a stable biological category.

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