Reconsidering race : social science perspectives on racial categories in the age of genomics /
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 A...
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- Biological theories of race beyond the millennium
- Americans' attitudes on individual or racially inflected genetic inheritance
- The Constructivist concept of race
- The return of biology
- A sociogenomic world
- Nature versus nurture in the explanations for racial/ethnic health disparities: parsing disparities in the era of Genome-wide Association Studies
- Genetic ancestry tests and race: who takes them, why, and how do they affect racial identities?
- Recasting race: science, politics, and group-making in the Postcolony
- Evidence of what? Re-creating race through evidence-based approaches to global health
- How did East Asians become yellow?
- Reconsiderations of race: commissioning parents and transnational surrogacy in India
- Academic Regionalism and the study of human genetic variation in a transnational context: Asianism and the racialization of ethnicity
- Conclusion-Thinking about race in the age of genomics: assessments and prospects.