Rethinking race : the case for deflationary realism / Michael O. Hardimon.
Rethinking race : the case for deflationary realism / Michael O. Hardimon.
Rethinking race : the case for deflationary realism / Michael O. Hardimon.
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2017.
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G 2017/2694
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English
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266 pages ; 25 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
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volume
Contents
The racialist concept of race -- The minimalist concept of race -- Do minimalist races exist? -- Is minimalist race biologically real? -- The populationist concept of race -- Populationist race: Existence and reality -- The concept of socialrace -- Health, race, medicine.
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2017.
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Massachusetts
Date Published
2017.
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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 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 sign...
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Rethinking race : the case for deflationary realism / Michael O. Hardimon.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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©2017
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G 2017/2694
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74VKVLvqvV4Z
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVLvqvV4Z
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0674975669 hardcover ; alkaline paper
9780674975668 hardcover ; alkaline paper
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305.8
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991024107919502626
