The Afterlife of Race: An Informed Philosophical Search

The ideology that underlies the concept of race has a long history. For centuries that ideology has spun supernaturalist and scientistic stories about ostensibly natural differences between different groups. The concept of “race” is in scientific decline, but the intertwined ideology and rhetoric behind it live on, and indeed prosper.

In this groundbreaking fusion of philosophy and color-conscious politics, philosopher Lionel K. McPherson enlists sweeping historical and empirical evidence to...