Achieving Our Humanity: The Idea of the Postracial Future

Does "race" make us human? Drawing upon the experience of being racialized as "black" for the first time while living in the United States and England, Nigerian-born Emmanuel Eze argues that racial identification is not essential to our humanity. If we can achieve, or seriously commit to, a goal of equality for all, Eze believes that it is possible for humankind to overcome its racial antagonisms and move toward a future in which race has little significance.Achieving Our Humanityexplores this postracial future through a philosophical analysis of the social, cultural, economic, and political experiences of race in the past--and what this might mean for our present and, most importantly, our future.

Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze is Associate Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University