Tabula Raza : Mapping Race and Human Diversity in American Genome Science.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fullwiley, Duana.

Series:

Atelier: Ethnographic Inquiry in the Twenty-First Century Series

Atelier: Ethnographic Inquiry in the Twenty-First Century Series ; v.14

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Genomics--United States.

Genomics.

Human beings--Variation--United States.

Human beings.

Human gene mapping--United States.

Human gene mapping.

Human genetics--Variation--United States.

Human genetics.

Scientific racism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (402 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2024.

Summary:

Duana Fullwiley has penned an intimate chronicle of laboratory life in the genomic age. She presents many of the influential scientists at the forefront of genetics who have redefined how we practice medicine and law and understand ancestry in an era of big data and waning privacy. Exceedingly relatable and human, the scientists in these pages often struggle for visibility, teeter on the tightrope of inclusion, and work tirelessly to imprint the future. As they actively imagine a more equal and just world, they often find themselves ensnared in reproducing timeworn conceits of race and racism that can seed the same health disparities they hope to resolve. Nothing dynamic can live for long as a blank slate, an innocent tabula rasa. But how the blank slate of the once-raceless human genome became one of racial differences, in various forms of what Fullwiley calls the tabula raza, has a very specific and familiar history--one that has cycled through the ages in unexpected ways.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Preface: Skin and Code

Abbreviations

Introduction: America and the Tabula Raza

1. Genomic World Building: The Mundus Novus of the Twenty-first Century

2. From Mundus to Model to Mundus Again: The Art of Ancestry between Worlds

3. Making Race: Pharmacogenetics and Its Necessary People

4. For the Love of Blackness: When Science Can Feel Like Home

5. Look, a Black Guy! (With a Genetic Finding)

6. A Family Affair: The Barbed Bonds of Relationship

7. Sci Non-Fi: Cells, Genes, and the Future Tense of "Diversity

8. Seeing Ghosts: From the Excavated Past to the Hauntings of the Present

Conclusion

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9780520401181

0520401182

OCLC:

1427061686