Determining racial categories seemed to be the goal of racial formation, however through the article by Michael Omni and Howard Winant I discovered that this was not the case. At first racial formation put identities with certain races, however it turned into putting certain races in certain social classes. There were of course the "whites" who were seen as the working class, and then everyone else ("other"), for example "blacks," who evolved into the lower class or in other words slaves. The ideas of culture and religion were passed over for skin color. Character had no impact on a person's identity, and the objective of racial formation was forgotten. The article mentions the suffering brought on through the racially prejudiced use of racial formation, and in the novel China Men there are examples of this misuse of racial formation.
             In the middle of page 102, there is a good example of racial prejudice. It starts with the "demons" short-changing Bak Goong. The "demons" find excuses to cut Goong's pay, and gets away with it because of their "white" social status. Naturally Goong complains, but it gets him nowhere due to the fact that he falls under the "other" social category. This piece continues with the "demons" finding ways to cut their workers' pay by any means possible. Things such as broken equipment and workers being sick are usually things the owners have to account for, but because of the misuse of racial formation, the "demons" account for their losses by reducing the pay their workers. "White" supremacy allows the "demons" to treat their workers, who of course fall under the "other" category, as unjustly as they please.
             Between pages 139-140 we see racial prejudice once again. When a pay raise is brought forth by the "demons" some workers show there excitement...