The Genetic Re-inscription of Race
Critics have debated for the past decade or more whether race is dead or alive in the new genetics: Is genomics opening up novel terrains for social identities or is it reauthorizing race? I explore the relationship between race and the new genetics by considering whether this race is the same scientific object as that produced by race science and whether these race-making practices are animated by similar social and political logics. I consider the styles of reasoning characteristic of the scientific work together with the economic and political rationalities of neo-liberalism, including identity politics as it meets biological citizenship. I seek to understand why and how group-based diversity emerges as an object of value - something to be studied and specified, something to be fought for and embraced, and something that is profitable - in the networks that sustain the world of (post)genomics today
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2008
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Authors: | Abu El-Haj, Nadia |
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[S.l.] : SSRN |
Subject: | Ethnische Diskriminierung | Ethnic discrimination | Rasse | Race | Gentechnik | Genetic engineering | Schwarze Menschen | Black people | Ethnische Gruppe | Ethnic group |
Description of contents: | Abstract [papers.ssrn.com] |
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