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What is race?: four philosophical views

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford University Press 2019 New YorkDescription: x, 283 p. Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN:
  • 9780190610180
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.8001 G5W4
Summary: Across public discourse, in the media, politics, many branches of academic inquiry, and ordinary daily interactions, we spend a lot of time talking about race: race relations, racial violence, discrimination based on race, racial integration, racial progress. It is fair to say that questions about race have vexed our social life. But for all we speak about race, do we know what race is? Is it a social construct or a biological object? Is it a bankrupt holdover from a time before sophisticated scientific understanding and genetics, or can it still hold up in biological, genetic, and other types of research? Most fundamentally, is race real? In this book, four prominent philosophers and race theorists debate how best to answer these difficult questions, applying philosophical tools and the principles of social justice to cutting-edge findings from the biological and social sciences. Each presents a distinct view of race: Sally Haslanger argues that race is a socio-political reality. Chike Jeffers maintains that race is not only political but also, importantly, cultural. Quayshawn Spencer pursues the idea that race is biologically real. And Joshua Glasgow argues that either race is not real, or if it is, it must be real in a way that is neither social nor biological. Each offers an argument for their view and then replies to the others. Woven together, the result is a lively debate that opens up numerous ways of understanding race. Above all, it is a call for sophisticated and principled discussion of something that significantly permeates our lives. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/what-is-race-9780190610180?q=9780190610180&cc=us&lang=en#
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1: Tracing the Socio-Political Reality of Race
Chapter 2: Cultural Constructionism
Chapter 3: How to be a Biological Racial Realist
Chapter 4: Is Race an Illusion or a (Very) Basic Reality?
Chapter 5: Haslanger's Reply to Glasgow, Jeffers, and Spencer
Chapter 6: Jeffers' Reply to Glasgow, Haslanger, and Spencer
Chapter 7: Spencer's Reply to Glasgow, Haslanger and Jeffers
Chapter 8: Glasgow's Reply to Haslanger, Jeffers, and Spencer
Index

Across public discourse, in the media, politics, many branches of academic inquiry, and ordinary daily interactions, we spend a lot of time talking about race: race relations, racial violence, discrimination based on race, racial integration, racial progress. It is fair to say that questions about race have vexed our social life. But for all we speak about race, do we know what race is? Is it a social construct or a biological object? Is it a bankrupt holdover from a time before sophisticated scientific understanding and genetics, or can it still hold up in biological, genetic, and other types of research? Most fundamentally, is race real?
In this book, four prominent philosophers and race theorists debate how best to answer these difficult questions, applying philosophical tools and the principles of social justice to cutting-edge findings from the biological and social sciences. Each presents a distinct view of race: Sally Haslanger argues that race is a socio-political reality. Chike Jeffers maintains that race is not only political but also, importantly, cultural. Quayshawn Spencer pursues the idea that race is biologically real. And Joshua Glasgow argues that either race is not real, or if it is, it must be real in a way that is neither social nor biological. Each offers an argument for their view and then replies to the others. Woven together, the result is a lively debate that opens up numerous ways of understanding race. Above all, it is a call for sophisticated and principled discussion of something that significantly permeates our lives.

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