The End of Race Politics
As one of the few black students in his philosophy program at Columbia University years ago, Coleman Hughes wondered why his peers seemed more pessimistic about the state of American race relations than his own grandparents\u2013who lived through segregation. The End of Race Politics is the culmination of his years-long search for an answer.
Coleman Hughes is a writer, podcaster and opinion columnist who specializes in issues related to race, public policy and applied ethics. Coleman\u2019s writing has been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, National Review, Quillette, The City Journal and The Spectator. He appeared on Forbes\u2019 30 Under 30 list in 2021.
Shermer and Hughes discuss: why he is considered \u201cblack\u201d if he is \u201chalf-black, half-Hispanic\u201d \u2022 what it means to be \u201ccolorblind\u201d \u2022 population genetics and race differences \u2022 Base Rate Neglect, Base Rate Taboos \u2022 institutionalized neoracism \u2022 viewpoint epistemology \u2022 affirmative action \u2022 gaps in income, wealth, home ownership, CEO representation, Congressional representation \u2022 myths of Black Weaknes, No Progress, Undoing the Past \u2022 reparations \u2022 the future of colorblindness.
Contemplative yet audacious, his new book, The End of Race Politics, is necessary reading for anyone who questions the race orthodoxies of our time. Hughes argues for a return to the ideals that inspired the American Civil Rights movement, showing how our departure from the colorblind ideal has ushered in a new era of fear, paranoia, and resentment marked by draconian interpersonal etiquette, failed corporate diversity and inclusion efforts, and poisonous race-based policies that hurt the very people they intend to help. Hughes exposes the harmful side effects of Kendi-DiAngelo style antiracism, from programs that distribute emergency aid on the basis of race to revisionist versions of American history that hide the truth from the public.
Read Michael H. Bernstein's review of Coleman Hughes book, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America: https://www.skeptic.com/reading_room/revisiting-colorblindness/