Race to the Finish (eBook)

Identity and Governance in an Age of Genomics

Jenny Reardon (Autor)

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2009
256 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-2640-7 (ISBN)

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Jenny Reardon is Assistant Research Professor of Women's Studies and Institute of Genome Sciences and Policy Scholar at Duke University..

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In the summer of 1991, population geneticists and evolutionary biologists proposed to archive human genetic diversity by collecting the genomes of "e;isolated indigenous populations."e; Their initiative, which became known as the Human Genome Diversity Project, generated early enthusiasm from those who believed it would enable huge advances in our understanding of human evolution. However, vocal criticism soon emerged. Physical anthropologists accused Project organizers of reimporting racist categories into science. Indigenous-rights leaders saw a "e;Vampire Project"e; that sought the blood of indigenous people but not their well-being. More than a decade later, the effort is barely off the ground. How did an initiative whose leaders included some of biology's most respected, socially conscious scientists become so stigmatized? How did these model citizen-scientists come to be viewed as potential racists, even vampires? This book argues that the long abeyance of the Diversity Project points to larger, fundamental questions about how to understand knowledge, democracy, and racism in an age when expert claims about genomes increasingly shape the possibilities for being human. Jenny Reardon demonstrates that far from being innocent tools for fighting racism, scientific ideas and practices embed consequential social and political decisions about who can define race, racism, and democracy, and for what ends. She calls for the adoption of novel conceptual tools that do not oppose science and power, truth and racist ideologies, but rather draw into focus their mutual constitution.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.2.2009
• Reihe/Serie: In-Formation
• Reihe/Serie: In-Formation
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Informatik ► Weitere Themen ► Bioinformatik
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Genetik / Molekularbiologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
• Schlagworte: activism • Affirmative Action • African Americans • Allan Wilson • anthropologist • anti-racism • Appendix (anatomy) • Ashley Montagu • Behavioral modernity • biodiversity • Bioethics • Biological Anthropology • biologist • Biology • Biotechnology • Caucasian race • Colonialism • Cornell University • critical race theory • Criticism • Cultural Anthropology • cultural survival • Current Anthropology • Deliberation • Disease • Drafter • Ernst Mayr • ethicist • ethnic group • ethnography • Eugenics • Evolution • evolutionary biology • Experiment • Explanation • Follow-up • Genetic Analysis • genetic diversity • geneticist • Genetics • Genetics and the Origin of Species • genome project • genomics • Governance • Harvard University • Health law • health policy • Historical race concepts • howard university • Human • human genetic variation • human genome • Human Genome Diversity Project • human genome project • human subject research • Ideology • Immortalised cell line • Indigenous peoples • Indigenous Peoples Council on Biocolonialism • Indigenous rights • Institution • International Indian Treaty Council • Jared Diamond • J. B. S. Haldane • LGBT • Mary-Claire King • Medical Research • Mendelian Inheritance • Nancy Wexler • National Human Genome Research Institute • National Science Foundation • Natural selection • Oppression • participant • Paul Rabinow • Political Correctness • Politics • Population • Population Genetics • Program Director • Provision (contracting) • Race and intelligence • Race (human categorization) • racial hygiene • Racism • Ronald Fisher • Science • scientific racism • Scientist • Slavery • Social Order • Social Science • Social Theory • Technology • Theodosius Dobzhansky • To the Contrary • UNESCO • World Council of Indigenous Peoples • World War II • Writing
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-2640-3 / 1400826403
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-2640-7 / 9781400826407