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GENETICS AND THE UNSETTLED PAST
THE COLLISION OF DNA, RACE, AND HISTORY |
| By: |
Keith Wailoo (Editor), Alondra Nelson (Editor), Catherine Lee (Editor) |
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Hardback |
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£134.00 |
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£120.60 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0813552540 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780813552545 |
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| Publisher: |
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
15 January, 2012 |
| Series: |
Rutgers Studies on Race and Ethnicity |
| Pages: |
370 |
| Description: |
Considers the alignment of genetic science with commercial trends in 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. Essays by scholars across a wide range of disciplines explore the emerging and often contested connections among race, DNA, and history. |
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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. |
| Illustrations: |
2 illustrations |
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US |
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Rutgers University Press |
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