ABSTRACT
This chapter defends the philosophical importance of teaching the semantics and ontology of race in opposition to those thinkers who are dismissive of race on the grounds that race is semantically and ontologically derelict. In sanctioning the philosophical respectability and credibility of race, I draw upon some of the ideas and strategies I have utilized in teaching race, some of the recurrent assumptions about race that students bring into the classroom, and some of the substantive insights emergent from my teaching regarding the philosophical status of race.
