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i WHAT IS RACE? ii iii WHAT IS RACE? Four Philosophical Views Joshua Glasgow Sally Haslanger Chike Jeffers Quayshawn Spencer 1 iv 1 Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and certain other countries. Published in the United States of America by Oxford University Press 198 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016, United States of America. © Oxford University Press 2019 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press, or as expressly permitted by law, by license, or under terms agreed with the appropriate reproduction rights organization. Inquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope of the above should be sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the address above. You must not circulate this work in any other form and you must impose this same condition on any acquirer. Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data Names: Glasgow, Joshua, author. | Haslanger, Sally Anne, author. | Jeffers, Chike, 1982– author. Title: What is race? : four philosophical views / Joshua Glasgow, Sally Haslanger, Chike Jeffers, Quayshawn Spencer/ Description: New York : Oxford University Press, 2019. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2018053834 (print) | LCCN 2019007102 (ebook) | ISBN 9780190610210 (Online content) | ISBN 9780190610197 (updf) | ISBN 9780190610203 (epub) | ISBN 9780190610173 (hardback) | ISBN 9780190610180 (paperback) Subjects: LCSH: Race--Philosophy. | Race relations--Philosophy. | BISAC: PHILOSOPHY / Political. | PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics. | PHILOSOPHY / Movements / General. Classification: LCC HT1523 (ebook) | LCC HT1523 .G643 2019 (print) | DDC 305.8001—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018053834 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Paperback printed by Sheridan Books, Inc., United States of America Hardback printed by Bridgeport National Bindery, Inc., United States of America v To our children, Samantha Rose Glasgow- Shulman, Aminata Lilla Jeffers, Ayo Jelani Jeffers, Aza Katherine Ida Jeffers, Julian Buo-H on Spencer, Quentin Buo- Yi Spencer, Isaac Amazu Haslanger Yablo, and Zina Siyasa Haslanger Yablo, in the hope that their generations will find a more just world. vi vii CONTENTS Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Tracing the Sociopolitical Reality of Race—S ally Haslanger 4 2. Cultural Constructionism—C hike Jeffers 38 3. How to Be a Biological Racial Realist—Q uayshawn Spencer 73 4. Is Race an Illusion or a (Very) Basic Reality?—J oshua Glasgow 111 5. Haslanger’s Reply to Glasgow, Jeffers, and Spencer 150 6. Jeffers’s Reply to Glasgow, Haslanger, and Spencer 176 7. Spencer’s Reply to Glasgow, Haslanger, and Jeffers 203 8. Glasgow’s Reply to Haslanger, Jeffers, and Spencer 245 Index 275 viii ix ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The theories presented in this book are derived from articles and books that we have previously published. Numerous people helped us as we devel- oped those earlier publications. We would like to reaffirm our gratitude for their help. With respect to the present work, we gratefully acknowledge the following: Sally Haslanger would like especially to thank the other authors of the book, Joshua Glasgow, Chike Jeffers, and Quayshawn Spencer, for their ongoing work, helpful conversations, and friendly collaboration in putting this book together. In addition, she would like to thank Lawrence Blum, Jorge Garcia, Adam Hosein, Karen Jones, Lionel McPherson, Megan Mitchell, José Jorge Mendoza, Deborah Mühlebach, David Plunkett, Laura Schroeter, Francois Schroeter, Greg Restall, Tommie Shelby, Isaac Yablo, Stephen Yablo, and Zina Yablo for ongoing conversations on the topics discussed. Chike Jeffers would like to thank Linda Martín Alcoff, Veromi Arsiradam, Tiffany Gordon, Tyler Hildebrand, David Ludwig, Tina Roberts- Jeffers, Katie Stockdale, and his coauthors Sally Haslanger, Quayshawn Spencer, and Joshua Glasgow for their feedback on drafts of his chapters in this book. He also presented versions of Chapter 2 at the University of Memphis and at Northwestern University. He is thankful to all who were present and especially to those who provided feedback on those occasions. Quayshawn Spencer is thankful for feedback from Mariana Achugar, Linda Alcoff, Elizabeth Anderson, Luvell Anderson, Robert Brandon, Liam Bright, Mazviita Chirimuuta, Haixin Dang, Michael Devitt, Brian Epstein, Patrick Forber, Justin Garson, Joshua Glasgow, Michael Hardimon, Sally Haslanger, Jay Garfield, Chike Jeffers, Saul Kripke, Meena Krishnamurthy, Edouard Machery, Lionel McPherson, Charles Mills, Sandra Mitchell, Jennifer Morton, Albert Mosley, Wayne Norman, Sumeet Patwardhan, George Smith, and Daniel Wodak. He would also like to thank the faculty