ABSTRACT
A theory of how race occurs in our ordinary everyday social lives necessitates a definition first of the event or practice of race as a moment in time. From the description of subjectivity that derives from within this event, the description of the person to which race is appended, it will then be possible to work back to the description of those structures and institutional practices of race that exist in society, such as those provided for in the research by Hall, Omi, Winant, andMills discussed in the last chapter. This approach is not a rejection of the importance of the ongoing work on racial social structures, but is rather an argument for beginning at the other end of the problem, in the everyday.
