ABSTRACT
Many scholars of race claim that races do not travel, that is to say, someone’s race can change if they travel to another place (or another time). In this chapter I distinguish two readings of this influential claim, namely, that the concepts of race that people use vary from context to context, and that someone’s property of being a member of a race (signified by our concept of race) is relative to context, and therefore can change when they move to another place (or time). I also examine several influential characterizations of social constructionism about race, and to what extent they are compatible with the claim that races do not travel, according to the second reading.
