Race Ends Here

How do we see ‘race’ and the symbols of racial difference? Is contemporary theorizing about race complicit in the reification of racial difference? These are the key questions that are addressed in this article, which uses them as the starting point for dealing with important theoretical and political dilemmas about race in the present environment. In particular, it seeks to explore some of the substantive problems that people conceptualize and act upon racial difference. Following on from this discussion, the article discusses some of the contradictions and limitations of anti-racist discourses and calls for a major rethinking of strategies for tackling racial thinking and practices.