Ordering the Human
Columbia University Press (Verlag)
978-0-231-20733-1 (ISBN)
These wide-ranging essays—written by experts in genetics, forensics, public health, history, sociology, and anthropology—investigate the influence of racial concepts in scientific knowledge production across regions and eras. Chapters excavate the mechanisms by which racialized science serves projects of power and domination, and they explore different forms of resistance. Topics range from skull collecting by eighteenth-century German and Dutch scientists to the use of biology to reinforce notions of purity in present-day South Korea and Brazil. The authors investigate the colonial legacies of the pathologization of weight for the Maori people, the scientific presumption of coronary artery disease risk among South Asians, and the role of racial categories in COVID-19 statistics and responses, among many other cases. Tracing the pernicious consequences of the racialization of science, Ordering the Human shines a light on how the naturalization of racial categories continues to shape health and inequality today.
Eram Alam is an assistant professor in the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University. Dorothy Roberts is the George A. Weiss University Professor of Law & Sociology, Raymond Pace & Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights, professor of Africana studies, and director of the Program on Race, Science, and Society at the University of Pennsylvania. Natalie Shibley is a visiting assistant professor of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at Northeastern University.
Preface
Introduction, by Eram Alam
Part I: Stability and Circulation
1. Origins of Races, Organs of Intellect: Polygenism, Political Order, and the Enlightenment Construction of Cranial Race Science, by Paul Wolff Mitchell
2. Unbecoming Subjects: Psychiatry, Race, and Disordering the Human, by Eric Reinhart
3. Locating the Child in Racial Science: Scenes from Latin America, by Sebastián Gil-Riaño and Julia E. Rodriguez
4. Race and Sameness: On Ordering the Human and the Specificities of Us-ness and Other-ness, by Amade Aouatef M’charek
5. The Racial Calculus: Security and Policy During the COVID-19 Global Pandemic, by Denise Ferreira da Silva
Part II: Purity and Mixture
6. Biometric Hybridity: Anglo-Indians, Race, and National Science in India, 1916–1969, by Projit Bihari Mukharji
7. “Multicultural Genes in Our Blood”? Genetic Governance and Biocultural Purity in South Korea, by Jaehwan Hyun
8. The Dilemmas of Racial Classification in Brazil: Reflections on Two Contemporary Case Studies, by João Luiz Bastos and Ricardo Ventura Santos
Part III: Past and Promise
9. Facing the Past: Human Skulls, Facial Reconstruction, and National Identity in the Middle East, by Elise K. Burton
10. Racism and Weightism in the Māori Community: From Weight-Focused Health to Indigenous Solutions, by Isaac Warbrick
11. After Race Classification: Grappling with South African Indigenous DNA in Practice, by Noah Tamarkin
12. The South Asian Heart Disease Paradox: History, Epidemiology, and Contested Narratives of Susceptibility, by Alyssa Botelho and David S. Jones
13. Roots of Coincidence: The Racial Politics of COVID-19, by Banu Subramaniam
List of Contributors
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 29.02.2024 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Race, Inequality, and Health ; 15 |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte |
| Naturwissenschaften | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-231-20733-6 / 0231207336 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-231-20733-1 / 9780231207331 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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