Full Description
Investigating the reality and significance of racial categories, Remapping Race in a Global Context examines the role of race in human genomics, biomedicine, and struggles for social justice around the world.
In this book, biologists, anthropologists, historians, and philosophers inspect critical questions around the biological reality of race and how it has been understood in different national and regional contexts. The essays also examine debates on the usefulness of race in medical and epidemiological studies. With a focus on the fields of human genomics and biomedicine, this book presents critical findings on whether and how race might be ethically and epistemologically justified in our age of personalized medicine, mass surveillance, and biased algorithms.
The book will be of interest to researchers and advanced students in a broad range of scientific and humanistic disciplines, including biology, anthropology, geography, philosophy, cultural or community studies, critical race theory, and any field concerned with the deep racial dividing lines running across societies globally.
Contents
Introduction: Remapping Race in a Global Context
Part I: Lewontin (1972), 50 Years Later
1. Lewontin (1972)
2. Human Genetic Diversity: Lewontin's Fallacy, 20 Years Later
3. Human Genetic Diversity: Fact and Fallacy
4. Racial Classification Without Race: Edwards' Fallacy
Part II: Indigeneity, the Americas, and Colonialism
5. Genomics, Bio-prospecting, Indigeneity
6. Latino STEM Teachers, DACA, and the Future of Teaching
7. Decolonizing the Curriculum in the American Southwest: The Role of Education in the Maintenance of the Colonial Hierarchy
8. Inclusion Without Equity: The Need to Empower Indigenous Genomic Data Sovereignty in Precision Health
Part III: On the Biological Non-Reality of Race
9. Modern Population Genetics and Race
10. The Biological Reality of Race: What is at Stake?
11. New Work for a Critical Metaphysics of Race
Part IV: On the Biological Reality of Race
12. A Metaphysical Mapping Problem for Race Theorists and Human Population Geneticists
13. Five Advantages of the Phylogenetic Race Concept
Part V: Race and Medicine
14. The Biopolitics of Race Revisited
15. Social "Races" in Biomedical Settings
16. Race as Witchcraft. An Argument Against Indiscriminate Eliminativism about Race
Postscript: Race: The Story Without End
