# Learning outcomes

After studying this course, you should be able to:

- understand some of the questions philosophers of race investigate
- begin to evaluate the position that race is about ancestry and the position that race is about power
- understand why different definitions of ‘racism’ affect how people identify and respond to racism
- assess arguments for and against the moral acceptability of racial fetishes.

OpenLearn - What can philosophy tell us about race?
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