Who Are You?: Racial Classification and the Census

How are individuals and groups racially classified, what are the meanings attached to different racial categories, and what impact do these categories have on a range of policies and practices? Taking the U.S. Census as a site of racial classification, we’ll examine shifting state definitions of race and how individuals and groups assert, embrace, reject, and negotiate different racial categories and identities.

Michael Omi is a professor of Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley and the co-author (along with Howard Winant) of Racial Formation in the United States (3rd edition, 2015), a groundbreaking work that transformed how we understand the social and historical forces that give race its changing meaning over time and place.

$10 for the general public. Free for OLLI members and UC Berkeley students, faculty, and staff.