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Notions of race

Oludamini Ogunnaike (Harvard): From Heathen to Sub-Human: A Genealogy of the Influence of the Decline of Religion on the Rise of Modern Racism. E. Diaz-Leon (Barcelona): In Defence of Historical Constructivism about Races. David Ludwig (VU): Against the New Metaphysics of Race. Roberta L. Millstein (UC-Davis): Thinking about Populations and Races in Time. Adam Hochman (Macquarie): Unnaturalised Racial Naturalism. Duana Fullwiley (Stanford): The “Contemporary Synthesis”: When Politically Inclusive Genomic Science Relies on Biological Notions of Race. Duana Fullwiley (Stanford): Race, Genes, Power. Victor L. Shammas reviews The Myth of Race: The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea by Robert Wald Sussman. Born that way? W. Carson Byrd and Matthew W. Hughey on how “scientific” racism is creeping back into our thinking — here’s what to watch out for. The introduction to Nature, Human Nature, and Human Difference: Race in Early Modern Philosophy by Justin E. H. Smith.