The unnatural racial naturalism

•I show that ‘racial naturalism’ need not mean ‘humans are divided into subspecies’.•I define three different non-subspecies definitions of ‘racial naturalism’.•I show that new racial naturalism need not be hasty.

In the recent article, “Against the New Racial Naturalism”, Adam Hochman (2013, p. 332) argues that new racial naturalists have been too hasty in their racial interpretation of genetic clustering results of human populations. While Hochman makes a number of good points, the purpose of this paper is to show that Hochman’s attack on new racial naturalists is misguided due to his definition of ‘racial naturalism’. Thus, I will show that Hochman’s critique is merely a consequence of an unnatural interpretation of racial naturalism.