Racial categories are unstable social meanings reshaped by political struggle

Evidence

“Racialization” is defined as “an unstable and de-centered complex of social meanings constantly being transformed by political struggle” assigned to identities in society. Michael Omi and Howard Winant, Racial Formation in the United States: From the 1960s to the 1990s, 2nd ed. (Routledge, 1994), 55. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1241

Categorization

• DEFINE: Supplies the operative definition of racialization (from Omi and Winant) that underpins the whole racialization-of-Muslims argument.
• XREF: connects to: Intersectionality fails because it assumes race and gender categories stay fixed; Race categories shift with historical power configurations; The meaning of race relations differs across national frames of reference — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 641 (+1 more)