Reconsidering race : social science perspectives on racial categories in the age of genomics

Reconsidering race : social science perspectives on racial categories in the age of genomics / edited by Kazuko Suzuki and Diego A. von Vacano.

"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...

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Other Authors: Suzuki, Kazuko, 1967- (Editor), Von Vacano, Diego A., 1970- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, [2018]
Subjects:
Race > Social aspects.
Human genetics > Social aspects.
Genomics > Social aspects.
Race > Health aspects.
Medical genetics.
Group identity.
group identity.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Genomics > Social aspects
Human genetics > Social aspects
Race > Social aspects
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Table of Contents:
  • 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
  • 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.

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