Abstract

The nature of race is a complicated discipline. There is a plethora of nuanced details that must be considered and should those nuanced details not be considered, the account being advanced might not hold. Chike Jeffers’s cultural constructionist account may seem attractive on the surface due to its intuitive nature, but as this article argues, does not hold when we begin to unpack it. The main issue with Jeffers’s cultural constructionist account of race is that it is not clear what he means by “culture.” There is a problem of ambiguity being smuggled in and Jeffers needs to address it. This article shows where that ambiguity problem is and how it specifically affects his account. It is argued that it is not clear what guiding features demarcate cultural groups.