Reconsidering Race Social Science Perspectives on Racial Categories in the Age of Genomics 1st edition by Kazuko Suzuki, Diego von Vacano 0190465308 9780190465308

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ISBN-10 :  0190465308 

ISBN-13 : 9780190465308

Author:  Kazuko Suzuki, Diego A. von Vacano 

Race is one of the most elusive phenomena of social life. While we generally know it when we see it, it’s not an easy concept to define. Social science literature has argued that race is a Western concept that emerged with the birth of modern imperialism, whether in the sixteenth century (the Age of Discovery) or the eighteenth century (the Age of Enlightenment). This book points out that there is a disjuncture between the way race is conceptualized in the social sciences and in recent natural science literature. In the view of some proponents of natural-scientific perspectives, race has a biological- and not just a purely social – dimension. The book argues that, to more fully understand what we mean by race, social scientists need to engage these new perspectives coming from genomics, medicine, and health policy. To be sure, the long, dark shadow of eugenics and the Nazi use of scientific racism cast a pall over the effort to understand the complicated relationship between social science and medical science understandings of race. While this book rejects pseudoscientific and hierarchical ways of looking at race and affirms that it is rooted in social grounds, it makes the claim that it is time to move beyond merely repeating the “race is a social construct” mantra. The chapters in this book consider three fundamental tensions in thinking about race: one between theories that see race as fixed and those that see it as malleable; a second between Western (especially US-based) and non-Western perspectives that decenter the US experience; and a third between sociopolitical and biomedical concepts of race. The book will help shed light on multiple contemporary concerns, such as the place of race in identity formation, ethno- political conflict, immigration policy, social justice, biomedical ethics, and the carceral state.

Reconsidering Race: Social Science Perspectives on Racial Categories in the Age of Genomics 1st Table of contents:

Part One The New Challenges to the Social Construction Approach to Race
1. Biological Theories of Race beyond the Millennium
2. Americans’ Attitudes on Individual or Racially Inflected Genetic Inheritance
3. The Constructivist Concept of Race
4. The Return of Biology
Part Two Race, Genomics, and Health
5. A Sociogenomic World
6. Nature versus Nurture in the Explanations for Racial/Ethnic Health Disparities: Parsing Disparities in the Era of Genome-Wide Association Studies
7. Genetic Ancestry Tests and Race: Who Takes Them, Why, and How Do They Affect Racial Identities?
Part Three Global Perspectives on Race and Genomics Debates
8. Recasting Race: Science, Politics, and Group-Making in the Postcolony
9. Evidence of What? Re-creating Race through Evidence-Based Approaches to Global Health
10. How Did East Asians Become Yellow?
11. Reconsiderations of Race: Commissioning Parents and Transnational Surrogacy in India
12. Academic Regionalism and the Study of Human Genetic Variation in a Transnational Context: A

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