Omi and Winant claim race is a master category of domination and inequality

Evidence

Massey includes patterns of gender inequality and class inequality (“defined by access to human capital, or more specifically, education” [2008, 252]) in his account, and looks at inequality largely in terms of income, not wealth.** His emphasis on longstanding, deeply entrenched patterns of inequality overlaps in many ways with our claim that in the United States race is a “master category” of domination and inequality. Where we differ is over his reliance on a biologically grounded, cognitively rooted basis for human equality, and indeed over his idea that inequality is the basic framework through which race (and gender as well) should be understood. In Massey’s view, the sociopolitical dimensions of race and racism play a secondary role in structuring race; pride of place goes first to the biological/ evolutionary dynamics of inequality (ie., where the term “categorically” is grounded), with the economic determinations running close behind (that’s the currents. — Michael Omi, Howard Winant, Racial Formation in the United States, 75

Categorization

• XREF: Directly corroborates the reader’s existing vault claims about race as a master category / racial formation theory.
• QUESTION: Worth confirming which Massey work and argument is being critiqued; the paragraph trails off mid-sentence on the economic determinations point.