Rei Terada’s concept metaracial emerges from her 2023 book, Metaracial: Hegel, Antiblackness, and Political Identity, the result of a sustained engagement with Hegel’s enduring influence on how we think about race — or rather, how race structures our thinking. In this respect, Terada’s work can be placed closely alongside Denise Ferreira da Silva’s, particularly the latter’s book Toward a
