Kevin Currie-Knight and Sheena Mason (SUNY Oneonta) discuss Sheena's theory of racelessness, why she is a race skeptic and eliminativist, and their mutual interest in the race satire of Harlem Renaissance writer George Schuyler.
:05 - Why talk about race always seems so polarized and partisan
7:45 - Sheena is a skeptic and eliminativist about race. What does that mean, and how does it compare to other approaches?
17:35 - Ibram Kendi's approach to thinking about race is understandable but wrong.
29:56: How to attempt racelessness in a world so used to the existence of race?
40:29 - what will "interracial" intimacy, marriage, and births do to current notions of race?
51:36 - Harlem Renaissance writer George Schuyler and satirizing the fiction of race
1;07:25 - Is Schuyler's skepticism about race partly why he drifted to the political right-wing?
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