Reconsidering Race

Social Science Perspectives on Racial Categories in the Age of Genomics

Kazuko Suzuki, Diego A. von Vacano (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

324 Seiten

2018
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-046528-5 (ISBN)

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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, socio-political 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). The editors of this book point out that there is a disjuncture between the way race is conceptualized in the social science and medical literature: some of the modern sciences employ racial and ethnic categories, but they do so to analyze, diagnose, and treat particular conditions such as organ transplants for mixed-race children, heart disease, cancer, osteoporosis, skin disorders, obesity, and gastrointestinal diseases. As such, race has a physical, as opposed to a purely social, dimension.

In order to more fully understand what we mean by "race", social scientists need to engage genetics, medicine, and health. To be sure, the long shadow of eugenics and the Nazi use of scientific racism have cast a pall over the effort to understand this complicated relationship between social science and race. But while the contributors of this volume reject pseudoscience and hierarchical ways of looking at race, they make the claim that it is time to reassess the Western-based, "social construction" paradigm. The chapters in this book consider three fundamental tensions in thinking about race: one between theories that see race as fixed or malleable; a second between the idea that race is a universal but modern Western concept and the idea that it has a deeper and more complicated cultural history; and a third between socio-political and biological/bio-medical concepts of race. Arguing that race is not merely socially constructed, the contributors, including Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Ann Morning, Jennifer Hochschild, Rogers Brubaker, Michael Keevak, Carolyn Rouse, and Sandra Soo-Jin Lee, offer a provocative collection of views on the way that social scientists must reconsider the idea of race in the age of genomics.

Kazuko Suzuki is Associate Professor of Sociology at Texas A&M University and the author of Divided Fates: The State, Race, and Korean Immigrants' Adaptation in Japan and the United States, winner of the 2017 Book Award on Asia/Transnational from the Asia and Asian American Section of the American Sociological Association. Diego A. von Vacano is Associate Professor of Political Science at Texas A&M University and the author of The Color of Citizenship: Race, Modernity and Latin American/Hispanic Political Thought and The Art of Power: Machiavelli, Nietzsche and the Making of Aesthetic Political Theory.

Preface: Race is Socially Constructed but Mutations Are Real
-Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Acknowledgments

A Critical Analysis of Racial Categories in the Age of Genomics: An Introduction
-Kazuko Suzuki and Diego A. von Vacano

Part One: The New Challenges to the Social Construction Approach to Race

Chapter 1: Biological Theories of Race beyond the Millennium
-Joseph L. Graves, Jr.

Chapter 2: Americans' Attitudes on Individual or Racially-Inflected Genetic Inheritance
-Jennifer Hochschild and Maya Sen

Chapter 3: The Constructivist Concept of Race
-Ann Morning

Chapter 4: The Return of Biology
-Rogers Brubaker

Part Two: Race, Genomics, and Health

Chapter 5: A Sociogenomic World
-Catherine Bliss

Chapter 6: Nature versus Nurture in the Explanations for Racial/Ethnic Health Disparities: Parsing Disparities in the Era of Genome-Wide Association Studies
-Jay S. Kaufman, Dinela Rushani, and Richard S. Cooper

Chapter 7: Genetic Ancestry Tests and Race: Who Takes Them, Why, and How Do They Affect Racial Identities?
-Wendy D. Roth and Katherine A. Lyon

Part Three: Global Perspectives on Race and Genomics Debates

Chapter 8: Recasting Race: Science, Politics, and Group-Making in the Postcolony
-Ruha Benjamin

Chapter 9: Evidence of What?: Recreating Race through Evidence-Based Approaches to Global Health
-Carolyn Rouse

Chapter 10: How Did East Asians Become Yellow?
-Michael Keevak

Chapter 11: Reconsiderations of Race: Commissioning Parents and Transnational Surrogacy in India
-Sharmila Rudrappa

Chapter 12: Academic Regionalism and the Study of Human Genetic Variation in a Transnational Context: Asianism and the Racialization of Ethnicity
-Shirley Sun

Conclusion: Thinking about Race in the Age of Genomics: Assessments and Prospects
-Kazuko Suzuki and Diego A. von Vacano

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Erscheinungsdatum	28.07.2018
Vorwort	Jr Gates Henry Louis
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	236 x 163 mm
Gewicht	567 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-19-046528-X / 019046528X
ISBN-13	978-0-19-046528-5 / 9780190465285
Zustand	Neuware