David Livingstone Smith gave a presentation at Arizona State University on “Dehumanization, Gender, and the Folk-Metaphysics of Race,” arguing that there is an intimate connection between dehumanization and racialization. Although groups can be racialized without being dehumanized, dehumanized groups are almost always racialized. To understand why this is, it’s necessary to unpack the folk-metaphysics of race and its relationship to certain underlying psychological dispositions, and went on to discuss why the most dangerous form of dehumanization, demonizing dehumanization, is highly gendered.