Competing racial projects either uphold or challenge the racial order.

Evidence

At any given historical moment, racial projects compete and overlap, evincing varying capacity either to maintain or to challenge the prevailing racial system. A good example is the current debate over the relevance of “colorblind” ideology, policy, Racial formation, therefore, is a synthesis, a constantly reiterated outcome, of the interaction of racial projects ona societywide level. — Michael Omi, Howard Winant, Racial Formation in the United States, 129

Categorization

• DEFINE: Explains how racial projects function as contested, overlapping forces in a racial system.