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Rethinking Race : the Case for Deflationary Realism / Michael O. Hardimon.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, (c)2017.Description: 1 online resource : 1 line illustrationContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674978447
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • GN269 .R484 2017
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Prologue -- Introduction -- 1. The Racialist Concept of Race -- 2. The Minimalist Concept of Race -- 3. Do Minimalist Races Exist? -- 4. Is Minimalist Race Biologically Real? -- 5. The Populationist Concept of Race -- 6. Populationist Race: Existence and Reality -- 7. The Concept of Socialrace -- 8. Health, Race, Medicine -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index
Subject: Because science has shown that racial essentialism is false, and because the idea of race has proved virulent, many people believe we should eliminate the word and concept entirely. Michael Hardimon criticizes this thinking, arguing that we must recognize the real ways in which race exists in order to revise our understanding of its significance.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Prologue -- Introduction -- 1. The Racialist Concept of Race -- 2. The Minimalist Concept of Race -- 3. Do Minimalist Races Exist? -- 4. Is Minimalist Race Biologically Real? -- 5. The Populationist Concept of Race -- 6. Populationist Race: Existence and Reality -- 7. The Concept of Socialrace -- 8. Health, Race, Medicine -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index

Because science has shown that racial essentialism is false, and because the idea of race has proved virulent, many people believe we should eliminate the word and concept entirely. Michael Hardimon criticizes this thinking, arguing that we must recognize the real ways in which race exists in order to revise our understanding of its significance.

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