Genetics and the Unsettled Past : : The Collision of DNA, Race, and History / / ed. by Catherine Lee, Alondra Nelson, Keith Wailoo.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Abram, Gabriel,; Aronson, Jay D.,; Braun, Lundy,; Chow-White, Peter A.,; Frank, Reanne,; Fujimura, Joan H.,; Hamilton, Jennifer A.,; Hammonds, Evelynn,; Hinterberger, Amy,; Jacob, Michelle M.,; Kahn, Jonathan,; Kohli-Laven, Nina,; Lee, Catherine,; Lee, Sandra Soo-Jin,; Nelson, Alondra,; Rajagopalan, Ramya,; Sankar, Pamela,; Sommer, Marianne,; Wailoo, Keith,; Wald, Priscilla,
• HerausgeberIn: Lee, Catherine,; Nelson, Alondra,; Wailoo, Keith,
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2012]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Rutgers Studies on Race and Ethnicity
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (370 p.) :; 2 illustrations

Our genetic markers have come to be regarded as portals to the past. Analysis of these markers is increasingly used to tell the story of human migration; to investigate and judge issues of social membership and kinship; to rewrite history and collective memory; to right past wrongs and to arbitrate legal claims and human rights controversies; and to open new thinking about health and well-being. At the same time, in many societies genetic evidence is being called upon to perform a kind of racially charged cultural work: to repair the racial past and to transform scholarly and popular opinion about the “nature” of identity in the present. Genetics and the Unsettled Past considers the alignment of genetic science with commercial genealogy, with legal and forensic developments, and with pharmaceutical innovation to examine how these trends lend renewed authority to biological understandings of race and history. This unique collection brings together scholars from a wide range of disciplines—biology, history, cultural studies, law, medicine, anthropology, ethnic studies, sociology—to explore the emerging and often contested connections among race, DNA, and history. Written for a general audience, the book’s essays touch upon a variety of topics, including the rise and implications of DNA in genealogy, law, and other fields; the cultural and political uses and misuses of genetic information; the way in which DNA testing is reshaping understandings of group identity for French Canadians, Native Americans, South Africans, and many others within and across cultural and national boundaries; and the sweeping implications of genetics for society today.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction: Genetic Claims and the Unsettled Past -- PART ONE. History, Race, and the Genome Era -- 1. Who Am I? Genes and the Problem of Historical Identity -- 2. Reconciliation Projects: From Kinship to Justice -- 3. The Unspoken Significance of Gender in Constructing Kinship, Race, and Nation -- PART TWO. Decoding the Genomic Age -- 4. A Biologist’s Perspective on DNA and Race in the Genomics Era -- 5. The Dilemma of Classification: The Past in the Present -- 6. The Informationalization of Race: Communication, Databases, and the Digital Coding of the Genome -- 7. Forensic DNA Phenotyping: Continuity and Change in the History of Race, Genetics, and Policing -- 8. Forensic DNA and the Inertial Power of Race in American Legal Practice -- 9. Making History via DNA, Making DNA from History: Deconstructing the Race-Disease Connection in Admixture Mapping -- 10. Waiting on the Promise of Prescribing Precision: Race in the Era of Pharmacogenomics -- PART THREE. Stories Told in Blood -- 11. French Families, Paper Facts: Genetics, Nation, and Explanation -- 12. Categorization, Census, and Multiculturalism: Molecular Politics and the Material of Nation -- 13. “It’s a Living History, Told by the Real Survivors of the Times—DNA”: Anthropological Genetics in the Tradition of Biology as Applied History -- 14. Cells, Genes, and Stories: HeLa’s Journey from Labs to Literature -- 15. The Case of the Genetic Ancestor -- 16. Making Sense of Genetics, Culture, and History: A Case Study of a Native Youth Education Program -- 17. Humanitarian DNA Identification in Post-Apartheid South Africa -- 18. Forbidden or Forsaken? The (Mis)Use of a Forbidden Knowledge Argument in Research on Race, DNA, and Disease -- 19. Genetic Claims and Credibility: Revisiting History and Remaking Race -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX