U.S. communities of color are too internally stratified for nationhood claims
Evidence
Despite the ongoing realities of structural racism, the vast increase in the incarcerated black and brown population over the past three decades, and the deepening of economic inequality since the onset of the great recession in 2008, U.S. communities of color remain highly stratified by class and gender, vastly differentiated by age cohorts, and more hybridized culturally- as well as through mixedrace relationships and identities- than was ever the case before. Therefore nationbased accounts cannot sustain the argument that the ghettos and barrios or Algerian FLN, and many other anti-racist and antiwar organizations around the world explicitly made these connections, especially during the 1960s (Dudziak 2011; Kelley 2003; Singh 2004; Hanchard 2006; Prashad 2007). — Michael Omi, Howard Winant, Racial Formation in the United States, 102
Categorization
Category: Contrarian or Surprising Claims