ABSTRACT
In the way that we use race there is little difference between the way we describe a distinct species being and a Black person. The fact that we continue to associate apes and monkeys with Blacks in popular culture, that we have a distinct word, “N – ” that we assign Blacks, that we have proper names for a group of people in this way, shouldwarn us of howwe use race today (Levinas 1997). The idea that interracial children are often viewed as “mixed,” reveals how we much we cling to the idea that Blacks and Whites really are different species, as though these children are a product of interbreeding between two distinct forms of human being. For what is it that is mixed, and why is this thought important enough to identify?
