Rethinking Race: The Case for Deflationary Realism

by Michael O. Hardimon

Book Overview

Many scholars and activists seek to eliminate "race"--the word and the concept--from our vocabulary. Their claim is clear: because science has shown that racial essentialism is false and because the idea of race has proved virulent, we should do away with the concept entirely. Michael O. Hardimon criticizes this line of thinking, arguing that we must recognize the real ways in which race exists in order to revise our understanding of its significance...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674975669
• ISBN13: 9780674975668
• Release Date: June 2017
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.5"