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There are no races: there is nothing in the world that can do all we ask race to do for… — Kwame Anthony Appiah

Philosophical literature

There are no races: there is nothing in the world that can do all we ask race to do for us.

Kwame Anthony Appiah
1992
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Philosophical literature
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1992
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Kwame Anthony Appiah
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Appiah, Kwame Anthony. In My Father's House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture. Methuen/Oxford University Press, 1992, ch. 2.

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