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Radio 4,2 mins

'Why has the racial fixation become so durable?'

The Reith Lectures

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Philosopher, Kwame Anthony Appiah explores how cultural traits are often cast as racial possessions, in the third of his 2016 BBC Reith Lectures, Colour. First broadcast 1 November 2016.

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