Ep. 228: Social Construction of Race (Appiah, Mills) (Part Two)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast · Mark Linsenmayer
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Show Notes
Continuing on Kwame Anthony Appiah's "Race, Culture, Identity: Misunderstood Connections" (1994), Charles Mills's "But What Are You Really?, The Metaphysics of Race" (1998), and Neven Sesardic's "Race: A Social Destruction of a Biological Concept" (2010) with guest Coleman Hughes.
Racial classifications vary geographically, therefore race is socially constructed. Given this, can we retain the positive aspects of group-identification without hierarchies and what Appiah calls "imperialism of identity?"
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End song: "Tired Skin" by Alejandro Escovedo, as interviewed on Nakedly Examined Music #60.