social science perspectives on racial categories in the age of genomics /
First Statement of Responsibility
edited by Kazuko Suzuki and Diego A. von Vacano.
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New York, NY, United States of America :
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Oxford University Press,
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[2018]
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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1 online resource (xviii, 302 pages)
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Biological theories of race beyond the millennium -- Americans' attitudes on individual or racially inflected genetic inheritance -- The Constructivist concept of race -- The return of biology -- A sociogenomic world -- Nature versus nurture in the explanations for racial/ethnic health disparities: parsing disparities in the era of Genome-wide Association Studies -- Genetic ancestry tests and race: who takes them, why, and how do they affect racial identities? -- Recasting race: science, politics, and group-making in the Postcolony -- Evidence of what? Re-creating race through evidence-based approaches to global health -- How did East Asians become yellow? -- Reconsiderations of race: commissioning parents and transnational surrogacy in India -- Academic Regionalism and the study of human genetic variation in a transnational context: Asianism and the racialization of ethnicity -- Conclusion-Thinking about race in the age of genomics: assessments and prospects.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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To better understand the idea of ""race"" in the postgenomic age, social science ought to move beyond merely repeating the ""race is a social construct"" mantra. This collection directly engages the interface between social-scientific and natural-scientific perspectives on race considering recent developments in genomics. The book provides views that go beyond US-centered or Western-based paradigms on race.