Joshua Glasgow, Sally Haslanger, Chike Jeffers, "What Is Race?: Four Philosophical Views"English | 2019 | ISBN: 0190610182, 0190610174 | PDF | pages: 297 | 2.9 mb
Across public discourse, in the media, politics, many branches of academic inquiry, and ordinary daily interactions, we spend a lot 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?