Kwame Anthony Appiah Quote

"Race" disables us because it proposes as a basis for common action the illusion that black (and white and yellow) people are fundamentally allied by nature and, thus, without effort; it leaves us unprepared, therefore, to handle the "interracial" conflicts that arise from the very different situations of black (and white and yellow) people in different parts of the economy and of the world.


In My Father's House (1992)


Race disables us because it proposes as a basis for common action the illusion that black (and white and yellow) people are fundamentally allied by...

Race disables us because it proposes as a basis for common action the illusion that black (and white and yellow) people are fundamentally allied by...

Race disables us because it proposes as a basis for common action the illusion that black (and white and yellow) people are fundamentally allied by...

Race disables us because it proposes as a basis for common action the illusion that black (and white and yellow) people are fundamentally allied by...