Research Catalog

Title

Genetics and the unsettled past : the collision of DNA, race, and history / edited by Keith Wailoo, Alondra Nelson, Catherine Lee.

Publication

• New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2012]
• ©2012

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Details

Additional Authors

• Wailoo, Keith.
• Nelson, Alondra.
• Lee, Catherine, 1971-

Description

x, 357 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

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. Various contributors explore the emerging and often contested connections among race, DNA, and history. From publisher description.

Series Statement

Rutgers studies in race and ethnicity

Uniform Title

Rutgers studies in race and ethnicity.

Alternative Title

Collision of DNA, race, and history

Subjects

• Black people > Genetics
• Gene mapping
• Race
• Ethnicity
• Genetic markers
• Human population genetics
• Genomics

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Who am I? : genes and the problem of historical identity / Keith Wailoo -- Reconciliation projects : from kinship to justice / Alondra Nelson -- The unspoken significance of gender in constructing kinship, race, and nation / Catherine Lee -- A biologist's perspective on DNA and race in the genomics era / Abram Gabriel -- The dilemma of classification : the past in the present / Lundy Braun and Evelynn Hammonds -- The informationalization of race : communication, databases, and the digital coding of the genome / Peter A. Chow-White -- Forensic DNA phenotyping : continuity and change in the history of race, genetics, and policing / Pamela Sankar -- Forensic DNA and the inertial power of race in American legal practice / Jonathan Kahn -- Making history via DNA, making DNA from history : deconstructing the race-disease connection in admixture mapping / Ramya Rajagopalan and Joan H. Fujimura -- Waiting on the promise of prescribing precision : race in the era of pharmacogenomics / Sandra Soo-Jin Lee -- French families, paper facts : genetics, nation, and explanation / Nina Kohli-Laven -- Categorization, census, and multiculturalism : molecular politics and the material of nation / Amy Hinterberger -- "It's a living history, told by the real survivors of the times-DNA" : anthropological genetics in the tradition of biology as applied history / Marianne Sommer -- Cells, gene, and stories : HeLa's journey from labs to literature / Priscilla Wald -- The case of the genetic ancestor / Jennifer A. Hamilton -- Making sense of genetics, culture, and history : a case study of a native youth education program / Michelle M. Jacob -- Humanitarian DNA identification in post-apartheid South Africa / Jay D. Aronson -- Forbidden or forsaken? The (mis)use of a forbidden knowledge argument in research on race, DNA, and disease / Reanne Frank -- Genetic claims and credibility : revisiting history and remaking race / Keith Wailoo, Catherine Lee, and Alondra Nelson.

Call Number

Sc E 19-1631

ISBN

• 9780813552545
• 0813552540
• 9780813552552
• 0813552559
• 9781280492594
• 1280492597
• 9780813553368 (canceled/invalid)
• 0813553369 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2011023491

OCLC

730054579

Title

Genetics and the unsettled past : the collision of DNA, race, and history / edited by Keith Wailoo, Alondra Nelson, Catherine Lee.

Publisher

New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2012]

Copyright Date

©2012

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Rutgers studies in race and ethnicity

Rutgers studies in race and ethnicity.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Added Author

Wailoo, Keith.

Nelson, Alondra.

Lee, Catherine, 1971-

Research Call Number

Sc E 19-1631

JFE 12-2621