ABSTRACT
This book is an attempt to grapple with a problem: the concept of race seems irredeemably corrupted but in some ways too valuable to do without. Now of course this isn’t the only race-related problem worthy of our attention. There are the venerable and important questions of racism, and of affirmative action and reparation. And questions of identity, and of the phenomenology and existential significance of race, have been resurgent topics for a couple of decades now. But the questions that motivate this volume excite different curiosities.
