That is to say, we want to explore ‘beyond race’ in the light of four contemporary debates or four angles from which this question can be discussed. Yet, in this commentaries series, this is precisely what we want to explore. At that moment, it seemed utterly out of tune with times to consider that before long in the United States, and elsewhere, race will no longer matter. When we started thinking about this commentary series, the world was protesting against racist violence and structural racism following the death of George Floyd, yet another Black victim of police violence. We have invited authors from different parts of the world, and with different academic backgrounds to reflect in a commentary on the issues we raise and to explain their position. We are aware that this questioning of race, and by implication of ethnicity, may be a typical hang-up of two authors based in Europe. the possibility or desirability of anti-racist movements not grounded in identity politics and (4) ‘Beyond race’ as a conceptualization of race that is decoupling biology and culture, or even to stop thinking in racial categories altogether, yet without de-politicizing any marginalised group’s, history and experience. (3) ‘Beyond race’ in terms of political mobilizations, e.g. We want to explore the idea of going ‘beyond race’ in four different ways: (1) ‘Beyond race’ as a demographic reality when people of mixed origin form the majority of population (2) ‘Beyond race’ in regard to policies that aim at combatting inequalities also along color lines, yet are no longer dependent on a notion of race. While at the moment the world seems to be divided along racial lines and ‘race’ appears to be a central axe of social inclusion and exclusion, in this article we ask whether it is thinkable to go ‘beyond race’.
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