Genetics and the Unsettled Past : : The Collision of DNA, Race, and History /

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

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...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (370 p.) :; 2 illustrations
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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

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