Race
Racial Identity & Racial Fraud
In this new series, philosophers reflect on the meaning of racial fraud, exploring its stakes—ethical and political, social and historical—and what it tells about the legacy and lived experience of racial injustice.
November 18, 2020
Nov 18, 2020
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In this new series, philosophers reflect on the meaning of racial fraud, exploring its stakes—ethical and political, social and historical—and what it tells about the legacy and lived experience of racial injustice.
Recent stories of racial impersonation, from former professor Jessica Krug to activist Satchuel Cole, raise profound questions about the nature of race. What makes racial identification subject to racial fraud? How do individual and social practices interact in the construction of racial identity? To what extent does race differ from other dimensions of personal identity and modes of cultural belonging? And what do these cases reveal about the history of racism and the fight for racial equality today?
In this new series, philosophers reflect on these fraught meanings of racial identity and racial fraud, exploring their stakes—ethical and political, social and historical—and what they tell us about the legacy and lived experience of racial injustice.
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November 18, 2020
1 Min read time
