Race to the Finish
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African Americans
Allan Wilson
Anthropologist
Anti-racism
Appendix (anatomy)
Ashley Montagu
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Behavioral modernity
Bioethics
Biological anthropology
Biologist
Biology
Biotechnology
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Colonialism
Criticism
Cultural anthropology
Deliberation
Disease
Drafter
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Ernst Mayr
Ethnic group
Ethnography
Eugenics
Evolution
Evolutionary biology
Explanation
Follow-up
Genetic analysis
Genetic diversity
Geneticist
Genomics
Harvard University
Health law
Health policy
Historical race concepts
Howard University
Human
Human genetic variation
Human genome
Human Genome Diversity Project
Human Genome Project
Human subject research
Ideology
Indigenous peoples
Indigenous Peoples Council on Biocolonialism
Indigenous rights
LGBT
Mary-Claire King
Mendelian inheritance
National Human Genome Research Institute
National Science Foundation
Participant
Politics
Population
Population genetics
Provision (contracting)
Race (human categorization)
Race and intelligence
Racial hygiene
Racism
Science
Scientific racism
Scientist
Slavery
Social order
Social science
Technology
UNESCO
World War II
Writing
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- ISBN 9780691118574
- Weight: 425g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 12 Dec 2004
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In the summer of 1991, population geneticists and evolutionary biologists proposed to archive human genetic diversity by collecting the genomes of "isolated indigenous populations." Their initiative, which became known as the Human Genome Diversity Project, generated early enthusiasm from those who believed it would enable huge advances in our understanding of human evolution. However, vocal criticism soon emerged. Physical anthropologists accused Project organizers of reimporting racist categories into science. Indigenous-rights leaders saw a "Vampire Project" that sought the blood of indigenous people but not their well-being. More than a decade later, the effort is barely off the ground. How did an initiative whose leaders included some of biology's most respected, socially conscious scientists become so stigmatized? How did these model citizen-scientists come to be viewed as potential racists, even vampires? This book argues that the long abeyance of the Diversity Project points to larger, fundamental questions about how to understand knowledge, democracy, and racism in an age when expert claims about genomes increasingly shape the possibilities for being human.
Jenny Reardon demonstrates that far from being innocent tools for fighting racism, scientific ideas and practices embed consequential social and political decisions about who can define race, racism, and democracy, and for what ends. She calls for the adoption of novel conceptual tools that do not oppose science and power, truth and racist ideologies, but rather draw into focus their mutual constitution.
Jenny Reardon is Assistant Research Professor of Women's Studies and Institute of Genome Sciences and Policy Scholar at Duke University..
