ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines a particular set of popular and philosophical arguments on racial eliminativism. It develops a map of William Edward Burghardt DuBois race concepts against racial eliminativism and in favor of a sociohistorical understanding of "race" toward liberatory culture making. The chapter explores Du Boisian critiques within a genealogy of critical perspectives on property and whiteness, and employs insights on possibilities for liberatory white identities and culture making despite the "impossibility" of transcending or neutralizing racialization. It looks at Du Boisian contributions to Critical Race Theory on what may be the most important arguments against racial eliminativism. Du Bois' keen insights and strategies to make whites see themselves, African Americans through a different mirror have cast a long shadow over Critical Race Theory and its offshoots. Philosophical and political shifts toward a Du Boisian influenced racial revisionism does not require that a wholesale rejection of racial eliminativism.
