In this paper, I endorse the view defended by Hochman and others that there are no races but rather there are only racialized populations. The distinction between “race” being real but socially constructed and being its being non-existent or a ‘myth’ might seem of little importance. But aside from conceptual clarity, the view that there are only racialized populations makes better sense of how racialized populations came into being, how racialization has the profound impacts that it does, and what kind of worlds we might imagine (and work towards) where racialization ceases to have such meaningful power and impacts. In biomedicine, the racialization of populations can explain a number of seemingly disparate phenomena, including both the ways in which racialized populations can suffer biological harm through the mechanisms of racialization and the ways in which important biological differences between populations are missed and misunderstood when racialized populations are mistaken for races with the particular kinds of biological meaning carried by the connotations of the ‘race’ concept. I consider the relationship between racialization and self-identity as a challenge to this view, but, I argue, the denying the reality of race ought still be the preferred position.