Decoding Racial Ideology in Genomics
1st Edition
Published on 27. May 2016
1 pages
979-8-216-22209-5 (ISBN)
Description
Although the human genome exists apart from society, knowledge about it is produced through socially-created language and interactions. As such, genomicists' thinking is informed by their inability to escape the wake of the 'race' concept. This book investigates how racism makes genomics and how genomics makes racism and 'race,' and the consequences of these constructions. Specifically, Williams explores how racial ideology works in genomics. The simple assumption that frames the book is that 'race' as an ideology justifying a system of oppression is persistently recreated as a practical and familiar way to understand biological reality. This book reveals that genomicists' preoccupation with 'race'-regardless of good or ill intent-contributes to its perception as a category of differences that is scientifically rigorous.
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Johnny E. Williams
Decoding Racial Ideology in Genomics
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03/2018
Lexington Books
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Johnny E. Williams is associate professor of sociology at Trinity College.
Content
Foreword, Joseph L. Graves, Jr.
Chapter 1: Genomics' 'Race' Legacy
Chapter 2: Socialized Interpreters
Chapter 3: Racialized Culture-Genomic Nexus
Chapter 4: Racialization via Assertions of Objectivity and Heuristic Practice
Chapter 5: 'Bad Science' Discourse as Covering for Racial Thinking
Chapter 6: Reorienting Genomics
Chapter 1: Genomics' 'Race' Legacy
Chapter 2: Socialized Interpreters
Chapter 3: Racialized Culture-Genomic Nexus
Chapter 4: Racialization via Assertions of Objectivity and Heuristic Practice
Chapter 5: 'Bad Science' Discourse as Covering for Racial Thinking
Chapter 6: Reorienting Genomics
