"The 'Morphing' Properties of Whiteness" by Troy Duster

Essay

"The 'Morphing' Properties of Whiteness" by Troy Duster
Duster takes up the issue of the biological and cultural basis of race and racial classification in American society. Duster advocates that race is complex, structural, and enduring, and, simultaneously, a social/cultural construct that is fluid and subject to change in which its boundaries may fundamentally alter.
-Discuss Duster's notions of "arbitrary/whimsical" and "structural/enduring" as competing conceptions of race.