White Face, Black Facts: A Response to Charles Mills

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In “But What Are You Really? The Metaphysics of Race,” Charles Mills offers an account of what it looks like to develop and understand embodied racial identities. His account problematizes the concepts of race, racialization, and self-identification with respect to racial identity while highlighting the complex nature of a systematic metaphysics of race as such. Moreover, he explores how historical…