UNIVERSITATIS COMENIANA BRATISLAVENSIS FACULTAS PHILOSOPHICA Tomus 40 ETHNOLOGIA SLOVACA ET SLAVICA 2019 133 Milan HRABOVSKÝ (2018) RACE Peopleʼs race classifications Bratislava: Veda, 359 s. Race, racial classification, racial hatred, racial intolerance, racism, racist. These words are repeated in various contexts in the media and in everyday conversations; they come from the mouths of public figures, scientists and academics, as well as ordinary people. In brief, they are part of professional (scientific and academic) and lay discourse. However, we only rarely encoun- ter in this context clear definitions of these concepts. The book “Race: a racial classification of people” offers answers to many questions relating to this issue. The author, Milan Hrabovský, says that he was driven to write this book by two main motivations. The first was the attempt to show that research into the issue of race should focus on three main variants of “race” research (Hra- bovský, 2018, p. 13, quotation marks in the original): research into the etymol - ogy of the word “race”, research into race classifications, research into race ideologies. The author’s second motivation to write the book includes several partial motivations, which he gradually discovered during the research. The first was the lack of literature in the Slovak context to deal exclusively and in detail with the issue of race. The second motivation was di scovering “a wide chasm… between the specialist (scientific) definition of the concept of race, and how ordinary people [which is not meant in the negative sense of the term] and non-specialists define the concept of race” (Hrabovský, 2018, p. 14). The thi rd part was the attempt to bridge the differences in the definitions and research into the issue of race between the natural and social sciences (Hrabovský, 2018, p. 14-15).