Race*

Race* is an LED window installation that provocatively searches online social media conversations for the word “race” (human categorization). The LED sign is switched on, illuminating the word “Race*” and thus enlightening arguments for racial naturalism—the view that races have either natural essences or some set of observable natural properties that are shared by all, or most members of that race. If the online search reveals the term race has been replaced or is no longer found in social discussion, the sign switches off, promoting racial eliminativist recommendations to discard the term and concept of race altogether.