Blurring the Boundaries of Race
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Race and gender are thought by many to be immutable features of our biology. In some places and spaces, we see significant challenges to this way of thinking about gender, but the biological view of race has proved more durable. How do we understand racial identity from individual and community perspectives? What’s changing about how we define race and how that shapes our interactions with the world around us? Our guest: Rebecca Tuvel: Associate Professor and Chair of Philosophy at Rhodes College.
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