Table of Contents
Preface.
Part I: Theory:.
1. What Race-Thinking Is:.
The Language Of Race.
What We Mean By 'Race': What Do You Mean, 'We'?.
Modern Racialism: Prehistory And Background.
Power, Racial Formation, And Method.
Conclusion.
2. Three Challenges To Race-Thinking:.
Introduction.
The Anti-Racist Challenge, Take 1: Isn't Race-Thinking Unethical?.
What Racism Is.
Classical Racialism: History And Background.
Early Modern Racialism.
High Modern, Or Classical, Racialism.
The Concept Of Classical Racialism.
The Challenge Of Human Variation: Isn't Racial Biology False?.
What's Wrong With Race.
The Challenge Of Social Differentiation: Isn't The Race Concept Just In The Way?.
Ethnicity.
Nation.
Class.
Caste.
Intersecting Principles: Gender.
Conclusion.
3. What Races Are:.
Introduction.
After Classical Racialism.
The U.S. Racial Terrain Today.
Varieties Of Racialism: Four Accounts And Ten Questions.
What Races Are - A Radical Constructionist's Story.
Ten Questions.
Conclusion.
Part II: Practice:.
4. Existence, Experience, Elisions:.
Introduction.
Ethical Eliminativism, For And Against; Or, The Anti-Racist Challenge, Take 2.
The Slippery Slope And The Argument From Political Realism.
The Argument From Self-Realization.
Existence, Identity, And Despair.
The Basics.
Despair And Terror.
Double-Consciousness.
Micro-Diversity, Part I.
Microdiversity, Part II.
In-Between: Illusions Of Purity And Interstitial Peoples.
Experience, Invisibility, And Embodiment.
The Basics.
Invisibility And The Other Mind-Body Problem.
From The Ontic To The Ontological.
Conclusion.
5. The Color Question:.
Introduction.
Color And 'Courting': The Ethics Of Miscegenation.
Colorblindness And Affirmative Action.
Conclusion.
A Note On Further Reading.
Endnotes
