Ep. 228: Social Construction of Race (Appiah, Mills) (Part One)

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

Mark Linsenmayer

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🗓️ 21 October 2019

⏱️ 39 minutes

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On Kwame Anthony Appiah's "Race, Culture, Identity: Misunderstood Connections" (1994), Charles Mills' "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.

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0:16.0	You're listening to the Partially examined life, a podcast by some guys who at one point
0:19.9	said on doing philosophy for living within thought better of it.
0:22.4	Our question for episode 228 is,
0:25.2	what is it to claim that race is socially constructed
0:27.8	or that the concept doesn't refer to anything?
0:29.6	And we read,
0:30.6	Race Culture Identity,
0:32.2	misunderstood connections by
0:33.7	Kwame Anthony Apia, 1994,
0:36.2	Charles Mills, essay,
0:37.8	but what are you really,
0:39.0	the metaphysics of race from 1998?
0:41.2	Race, a social destruction of a biological concept
0:44.2	by Nevin Cisardic from 2010,
0:47.0	and finally,
0:47.8	do races exist contemporary philosophical debates
0:50.1	that's a section in the Stanford and Cyclopedia of Philosophy article on race
0:53.4	by Michael James from 2008, updated in 2016.
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