Main description:

Investigating the reality and significance of racial categories, Remapping Race in a Global Context examines the role of race in human genomics, biomedicine, and struggles for social justice around the world.

In this book, biologists, anthropologists, historians, and philosophers inspect critical questions around the biological reality of race and how it has been understood in different national and regional contexts. The essays also examine debates on the usefulness of race in medical and epidemiological studies. With a focus on the fields of human genomics and biomedicine, this book presents critical findings on whether and how race might be ethically and epistemologically justified in our age of personalized medicine, mass surveillance, and biased algorithms.

The book will be of interest to researchers and advanced students in a broad range of scientific and humanistic disciplines, including biology, anthropology, geography, philosophy, cultural or community studies, critical race theory, and any field concerned with the deep racial dividing lines running across societies globally.

Contents:

Introduction: Remapping Race in a Global Context

Part I: Lewontin (1972), 50 Years Later

1. Lewontin (1972)

2. Human Genetic Diversity: Lewontin's Fallacy, 20 Years Later

3. Human Genetic Diversity: Fact and Fallacy

4. Racial Classification Without Race: Edwards' Fallacy

Part II: Indigeneity, the Americas, and Colonialism

5. Genomics, Bio-prospecting, Indigeneity

6. Latino STEM Teachers, DACA, and the Future of Teaching

7. Decolonizing the Curriculum in the American Southwest: The Role of Education in the Maintenance of the Colonial Hierarchy

8. Inclusion Without Equity: The Need to Empower Indigenous Genomic Data Sovereignty in Precision Health

Part III: On the Biological Non-Reality of Race

9. Modern Population Genetics and Race

10. The Biological Reality of Race: What is at Stake?

11. New Work for a Critical Metaphysics of Race

Part IV: On the Biological Reality of Race

12. A Metaphysical Mapping Problem for Race Theorists and Human Population Geneticists

13. Five Advantages of the Phylogenetic Race Concept

Part V: Race and Medicine

14. The Biopolitics of Race Revisited

15. Social "Races" in Biomedical Settings

16. Race as Witchcraft. An Argument Against Indiscriminate Eliminativism about Race

Postscript: Race: The Story Without End