Omi And Winant Racial Analysis
Omi and Winant describe racial projects as representations or explanations of racial dynamics in an effort to reorganize and redistribute resources along particular racial lines. Racial projects encompass everything from depictions in television and music, to legislative processes or even newspaper headlines. They are a result of “New Racism”. A popular example is the war on drugs. On the outside, it seems racially neutral. It is a campaign seeking to end drug abuse. However, the ways in which policies are enacted single out men of color. Police profiling and everyday prejudice leads many African Americans to be singled out and carted off to jail. When looking at statistics, it seems as if this so called war on drugs was just an effort to incarcerate