Racial politics scholarship neglects the processes that produce racial politics

Evidence

But within this body of work the political processes involved in the making of racial politics have received little or no attention, either from a theoretical or empirical perspective. Indeed, it is surprising to see how little research has explored in any detail the contemporary dynamics of racial politics. This has resulted in serious lacunae in the analysis of racial politics in contemporary societies. More significantly little attention has been given either to forms of political and social mobilization among minorities or to the responses of political institutions to minority struggles for empowerment. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2183