Wailoo, Keith (Editor)
Nelson, Alondra (Editor)
Lee, Catherine Y. (Editor)
Rutgers University Press
Physical Details: x + 357 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English
Our genetic markers have come to be regarded as portals to the past. Analysis of these markers is increasingly used to tell the story of human migration; to investigate and judge issues of social membership and kinship; to rewrite history and collective memory; to right past wrongs and to arbitrate legal claims and human rights controversies; and to open new thinking about health and well-being. At the same time, in many societies genetic evidence is being called upon to repair the racial past and to transform scholarly and popular opinion about the "nature" of identity in the present. Genetics and the Unsettled Past considers the alignment of genetic science with commercial genealogy, with legal and forensic developments, and with pharmaceutical innovation to examine how these trends lend renewed authority to biological understandings of race and history. This unique collection brings together scholars from a wide range of disciplines to explore the emerging and often contested connections among race, DNA, and history. Written for a general audience, the book's essays touch upon a variety of topics, including the rise and implications of DNA in genealogy, law, and other fields; the cultural and political uses and misuses of genetic information; the way in which DNA testing is reshaping understandings of group identity for French Canadians, Native Americans, South Africans, and many others within and across cultural and national boundaries; and the sweeping implications of genetics for society today.
...MoreDescription Contents:
Chapter Wailoo, Keith (2012) Who Am I? Genes and the Problem of Historical Identity. In: Genetics and the Unsettled Past: The Collision of DNA, Race, and History (p. 13).
Chapter Nelson, Alondra (2012) Reconciliation Projects: From Kinship to Justice. In: Genetics and the Unsettled Past: The Collision of DNA, Race, and History (p. 20).
Chapter Lee, Catherine (2012) The Unspoken Significance of Gender in Constructing Kinship, Race, and Nation. In: Genetics and the Unsettled Past: The Collision of DNA, Race, and History (p. 32).
Chapter Gabriel, Abram (2012) A Biologist's Perspective on DNA and Race in the Genomics Era. In: Genetics and the Unsettled Past: The Collision of DNA, Race, and History (p. 43).
Chapter Braun, Lundy; Hammonds, Evelynn (2012) The Dilemma of Classification: The Past in the Present. In: Genetics and the Unsettled Past: The Collision of DNA, Race, and History (p. 67).
Chapter Chow-White, Peter A. (2012) The Informationalization of Race: Communication, Databases, and the Digital Coding of the Genome. In: Genetics and the Unsettled Past: The Collision of DNA, Race, and History (p. 81).
Chapter Sankar, Pamela (2012) Forensic DNA Phenotyping: Continuity and Change in the History of Race, Genetics, and Policing. In: Genetics and the Unsettled Past: The Collision of DNA, Race, and History (p. 104).
Chapter Kahn, Jonathan (2012) Forensic DNA and the Inertial Power of Race in American Legal Practice. In: Genetics and the Unsettled Past: The Collision of DNA, Race, and History (p. 114).
Chapter Rajagopalan, Ramya; Fujimura, Joan H. (2012) Making History via DNA, Making DNA from History: Deconstructing the Race-Disease Connection in Admixture Mapping. In: Genetics and the Unsettled Past: The Collision of DNA, Race, and History (p. 164).
Chapter Lee, Sandra Soo-Jin (2012) Waiting on the Promise of Prescribing Precision: Race in the Era of Pharmacogenomics. In: Genetics and the Unsettled Past: The Collision of DNA, Race, and History (p. 164).
Chapter Kohli-Laven, Nina (2012) French Families, Paper Facts: Genetics, Nation, and Explanation. In: Genetics and the Unsettled Past: The Collision of DNA, Race, and History (p. 183).
Chapter Hinterberger, Amy (2012) Categorization, Census, and Multiculturalism: Molecular Politics and the Material of Nation. In: Genetics and the Unsettled Past: The Collision of DNA, Race, and History (p. 204).
Chapter Sommer, Marianne (2012) “It's a Living History, Told by the Real Survivors of the Times-DNA”: Anthropological Genetics in the Tradition of Biology as Applied History. In: Genetics and the Unsettled Past: The Collision of DNA, Race, and History (p. 225).
Chapter Wald, Priscilla (2012) Cells, Genes, and Stories: HeLa's Journey from Labs to Literatur. In: Genetics and the Unsettled Past: The Collision of DNA, Race, and History (p. 247).
Chapter Hamilton, Jennifer A. (2012) The Case of the Genetic Ancestor. In: Genetics and the Unsettled Past: The Collision of DNA, Race, and History (p. 266).
Chapter Jacob, Michelle M. (2012) Making Sense of Genetics, Culture, and History: A Case Study of a Native Youth Education Program. In: Genetics and the Unsettled Past: The Collision of DNA, Race, and History (p. 279).
Chapter Aronson, Jay D. (2012) Humanitarian DNA Identification in Post-Apartheid South Africa. In: Genetics and the Unsettled Past: The Collision of DNA, Race, and History (p. 295).
Chapter Frank, Reanne (2012) Forbidden or Forsaken? The (Mis)Use of a Forbidden Knowledge Argument in Research on Race, DNA, and Disease. In: Genetics and the Unsettled Past: The Collision of DNA, Race, and History (p. 315).
Chapter Wailoo, Keith; Lee, Catherine; Nelson, Alondra (2012) Genetic Claims and Credibility: Revisiting History and Remaking Race. In: Genetics and the Unsettled Past: The Collision of DNA, Race, and History (p. 325).
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