Remapping Race in a Global Context

Ludovica Lorusso is a Research Fellow at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). She is the author of peer-reviewed papers in philosophy of biology, philosophy of race, and philosophy of perception, where she proposed a new model of perception of faces. Her current research interests include philosophy of biomedicine, science, technology, and society (STS); and bioethics. Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther is Professor of Humanities at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He works in the philosophy of science and philosophy of biology and has interests in epistemology and political philosophy, cartography and GIS, and science in general. Recent publications include "A Beginner's Guide to the New Population Genomics of Homo sapiens: Origins, Race, and Medicine" in The Harvard Review of Philosophy; "Mapping the Deep Blue Oceans" in The Philosophy of GIS; When Maps Become the World (2020); and Our Genes: A Philosophical Perspective on Human Evolutionary Genomics (2022).

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