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1 online resource (xviii, 302 pages) |
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Preface. Race is socially constructed but mutations are real / Henry Louis Gates Jr. -- A critical analysis of racial categories in the age of genomics : an introduction / Kazuko Suzuki and Diego A. von Vacano -- Part one. The new challenges to the social construction approach to race. Biological theories of race beyond the millennium / Joseph L. Graves Jr. -- Americans' attitudes on individual or racially inflected genetic inheritance / Jennifer Hochschild and Maya Sen -- The Constructivist concept of race / Ann Morning -- The return of biology / Rogers Brubaker -- Part two. Race, genomics, and health. A sociogenomic world / Catherine Bliss -- Nature versus nurture in the explanations for racial/ethnic health disparities : parsing disparities in the era of Genome-wide Association Studies / Jay S. Kaufman, Dinela Rushani, and Richard S. Cooper -- Genetic ancestry tests and race : who takes them, why, and how do they affect racial identities? / Wendy D. Roth and Katherine A. Lyon -- |
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Part three. Global perspectives on race and genomics debates. Recasting race : science, politics, and group-making in the Postcolony / Ruha Benjamin -- Evidence of what? Re-creating race through evidence-based approaches to global health / Carolyn Rouse -- How did East Asians become yellow? / Michael Keevak -- Reconsiderations of race : commissioning parents and transnational surrogacy in India / Sharmila Rudrappa -- Academic Regionalism and the study of human genetic variation in a transnational context : Asianism and the racialization of ethnicity / Shirley Sun -- Conclusion. Thinking about race in the age of genomics : assessments and prospects / Kazuko Suzuki and Diego A. von Vacano |
| Summary |
"This book points out that there is a disjuncture between the way race is conceptualized in the social sciences and in recent natural science literature. In the view of some proponents of natural-scientific perspectives, race has a biological- and not just a purely social - dimension. The book argues that, to more fully understand what we mean by race, social scientists need to engage these new perspectives coming from genomics, medicine, and health policy. To be sure, the long, dark shadow of eugenics and the Nazi use of scientific racism cast a pall over the effort to understand the complicated relationship between social science and medical science understandings of race. While this book rejects pseudoscientific and hierarchical ways of looking at race and affirms that it is rooted in social grounds, it makes the claim that it is time to move beyond merely repeating. The chapters in this book consider three fundamental tensions in thinking about race: one between theories that see race as fixed and those that see it as malleable; a second between Western (especially US-based) and non-Western perspectives that decenter the US experience; and a third between sociopolitical and biomedical concepts of race. The book will help shed light on multiple contemporary concerns, such as the place of race in identity formation, ethno- political conflict, immigration policy, social justice, biomedical ethics, and the carceral state"--From publisher's description |
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To better understand the idea of ""race"" in the postgenomic age, social science ought to move beyond merely repeating the ""race is a social construct"" mantra. This collection directly engages the interface between social-scientific and natural-scientific perspectives on race considering recent developments in genomics. The book provides views that go beyond US-centered or Western-based paradigms on race |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 01, 2018) |
| Subject |
Race -- Social aspects
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Human genetics -- Social aspects
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Genomics -- Social aspects
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Race -- Health aspects
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Medical genetics.
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Group identity.
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Racial Groups -- genetics
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Racial Groups -- classification
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Genetics, Medical
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Inheritance Patterns
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Social Identification
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Sociological Factors
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group identity.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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Genomics -- Social aspects
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Human genetics -- Social aspects
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Race -- Social aspects
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Suzuki, Kazuko, 1967- editor.
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Von Vacano, Diego A., 1970- editor.
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Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., writer of introduction.
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| LC no. |
2017059372 |
| ISBN |
9780190465292 |
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0190465298 |
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9780190465315 |
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019046531X |
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