Against the philosophical project of “biologizing” race

This paper critiques philosophical efforts to biologize race as racial projects (Omi and Winant, Racial Formation in the United States ). The paper argues that the deeply social phenomenon of race defies the analytic schema employed by biologizing philosophers. The very (social) act of theorizing race is already in an involuted relationship with its target concept: analyzing race must be seen as a racial project , in that it simultaneously helps...