Love Among the Races: ‘… why race continues to matter – usually to the disadvantage of blacks – despite the fact that race should no longer exist. Essentialist definitions of race have long been discredited; civil rights laws enshrine society’s commitment to equality of treatment and opportunity; the merest hint of overt racial prejudice is enough to destroy a politician’s career. But if race has had the scientific and political stuffing knocked out of it, it remains stubbornly persistent as a “social truth” that affects people’s behaviour and life chances.’ Times Literary Supplement