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In Race: A Philosophical Introduction; Second Edition ; Paul C. Taylor provides an accessible guide to a well-travelled but still-mysterious area of the contemporary social landscape. As in the first edition; the book blends metaphysics and social philosophy; analytic philosophy and pragmatic philosophy of experience. In this thoroughly updated and revised volume; Taylor outlines the main features and implications of race-thinking; while engaging the ideas of such important figures as Linda Alcoff; K. Anthony Appiah; W. E. B. Du Bois; Michel Foucault; Sally Haslanger; and Howard Winant. The result is a comprehensive but accessible introduction to philosophical race theory and to a non-biological and situational notion of race. The book unfolds in a sequence of five chapters; each devoted to one of the following questions: What is race-thinking? Don’t we know better than to talk about race now? Are there any races? What is it like to have a racial identity? And how important; ethically; is colorblindness? On the way to answering these questions; Race takes up topics like mixed-race identity; white supremacy; the relationship between the race concept and other social identity categories and the impact of race-thinking on our erotic and romantic lives. The second edition’s new concluding chapter explores the racially fraught issues of policing; immigration; and global justice; and interrogates the thought that Barack Obama has ushered in a post-racial age. This volume is suitable for the educated general reader as well as for students and scholars in ethnic studies; philosophy; sociology; and other related fields.