Discussion
- While much of the middle of Blum's book builds on the groundwork laid by Kwame Anthony Appiah's Color Conscious, he builds on those claims by introducing the term racialization (not to be conflated with racism nor racialism), what is this racialization and how does it account for the reality of race (despite the hypothetical aspects of its social construction), while denying the existence of race as a biological and cultural category? For Blum, why, if a race exists in society, must it be racialized?