Race and racism

The eighteen essays in this book deal with the meaning of two highly contested ideas: Race and racism. Race is variously declared to be a self-evident fact of nature, a natural kind, a biological category, a political category,a social construction, an invention, and fiction. Similarly, althrough racism is commonly defined as colour prejudice, some maintain that it is will toeards certain races; others that is a belief, or soemetimes an ideology or theory of racial superiority and inferiority; and still others that is the prejudice of unjust racial discrimination.