“…Additional recent works that cite the racial state, in passing or in depth, cover topics of great range, many of which could be fruitfully reconsidered from an empire-state approach to the US racial state and all of which is compatible with it: census (Haney-López 2005), education (McCarthy 2008(McCarthy , 2009), environment (Kurtz 2009), Hurricane Katrina (Camp 2009;Giroux 2006), intersectionality with gender and sexuality (Alexander-Floyd 2007;Boris 1995;Reddy 2011;Glenn 2002;Kandaswamy 2012), miscegenation (Pascoe 2010), subprime mortgages (Wyly 2010), transnational racial ideology in Korea and Korean America (Kim 2006), and Vietnamese refugees (Espiritu 2006). Beyond engaging and adding to the foregoing literatures, the pressing task for sociology is to incorporate their insights and rework the generative theories of Omi and Winant and others toward a more effective analysis and critique of the US racial state.…”