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Partially Examined Life #228: Social Construction of Race (Appiah, Mills) (Part Two)

Partially Examined Life #228: Social Construction of Race (Appiah, Mills) (Part Two) 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. Hear more of this podcast at partiallyexaminedlife.com.

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.

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