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Racial And Ethnic Formation: A Comparative Analysis

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Within the age of reformations and new conceptual understandings, the idea that we had derived our politics and everyday life by a determined race is ludacris. Everyone had believed that our time of racism and Racial Profiling had been a memory of the past; however, the usage of Racial and Ethnic Formation was still being utilized due to its simplicity from the countless years of usage. Until the turn of the 21st century, the Judicial branch had used a 1970 state law against a woman who had been classified as “black”, and this had “declared anyone with at least 1/32nd ‘Negro blood’ to be black”(285). To see that one case within millions had been determined by past racism has a more problematic derivative than just being racist; in context,

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