ABSTRACT
The continual changing of racial categories in society and by governmental offices indicates that race is something that is created and anchored in the social, economic, and cultural conditions of the time. In the words of Omi and Winant (1994) , it involves “racial formation,” which is a “sociohistorical process by which racial categories are created, inhabited, transformed, and destroyed” (p. 55). As historical conditions and contexts change, so do racial classifications. In a real sense, racial classifications reflect the structure of inequality in a society.
