This paper critiques philosophical efforts to biologize race as racial projects (Omi and Winant, Racial Formation in the United States). The paper argues that the deeply social phenomenon of race defies the analytic schema employed by biologizing philosophers. The very (social) act of theorizing race is already in an involuted relationship with its target concept: analyzing race must be seen as a racial project, in that it simultaneously helps to manage how race is represented in society and helps organize society’s resources along particular racial lines. Such biologizing projects are rife with moral and political dimensions and have a depoliticizing effect that has the potential to camouflage, defuse, or explain away the social-structural reproduction of white power/privilege. The paper begins by considering two recent philosophic-scientific biologizations of race, showing how they conform to the analytic schema, reviewing received critical points, and offering several novel ones.

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反对“生物化”种族的哲学计划

本文批评将种族生物学化为种族项目的哲学努力（Omi 和 Winant，美国的种族形成）。该论文认为，种族这一深刻的社会现象违背了生物学哲学家所采用的分析模式。种族理论化的（社会）行为已经与其目标概念密切相关：分析种族必须被视为种族项目，因为它同时有助于管理种族在社会中的代表方式，并有助于按照特定的种族界限组织社会资源。这种生物化项目充满了道德和政治层面，并具有去政治化效果，有可能伪装、化解或解释白人权力/特权的社会结构再生产。这篇论文首先考虑了最近关于种族的两个哲学科学生物学，展示了它们如何符合分析模式，回顾了收到的关键点，并提供了几个新的关键点。