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Can race be transcended?

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

Transcending Race in the Universities

I don't know how much that fact really matters in a practical sense since we are such socially embedded creatures. At some point, I don't know when this becomes just an academic exercise and then once we step out of the seminar room, we're bombarded by the realities of this social world that we live in. And so that's what really worries me about what's going on in elite spaces in media, cultural, artistic, elite, corporate institutions. The lack of good thinking and new thinking on race that's happening in those spaces is opposite of what I would hope for. We actually have some of the most regressive thinking on racial categorization there or in museums or in magazines now

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