Ordering the Human : The Global Spread of Racial Science / edited by Eram Alam, Dorothy Roberts, and Natalie Shibley.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Roberts, Dorothy E., 1956- editor.

Alam, Eram, editor.

Shibley, Natalie, editor.

Series:

Race, inequality, and health ; Volume 15.

Race, Inequality, and Health ; Volume 15

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Scientific racism--Case studies.

Scientific racism.

Racism in medicine--Case studies.

Racism in medicine.

Racism--Case studies.

Racism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (348 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2024]

Summary:

Ordering the Human presents cutting-edge interdisciplinary scholarship that examines the racialization of science in various global contexts, illuminating how racial logics have been deployed to classify, marginalize, and oppress.

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction, by Eram Alam

Part I: Stability and Circulation

1. Origins of Races, Organs of Intellect: Polygenism, Political Order, and the Enlightenment Construction of Cranial Race Science, by Paul Wolff Mitchell

2. Unbecoming Subjects: Psychiatry, Race, and Disordering the Human, by Eric Reinhart

3. Locating the Child in Racial Science: Scenes from Latin America, by Sebastián Gil-Riaño and Julia E. Rodriguez

4. Race and Sameness: On Ordering the Human and the Specificities of Us-ness and Other-ness, by Amade Aouatef M'charek

5. The Racial Calculus: Security and Policy During the COVID-19 Global Pandemic, by Denise Ferreira da Silva

Part II: Purity and Mixture

6. Biometric Hybridity: Anglo-Indians, Race, and National Science in India, 1916-1969, by Projit Bihari Mukharji

7. "Multicultural Genes in Our Blood"? Genetic Governance and Biocultural Purity in South Korea, by Jaehwan Hyun

8. The Dilemmas of Racial Classification in Brazil: Reflections on Two Contemporary Case Studies, by João Luiz Bastos and Ricardo Ventura Santos

Part III: Past and Promise

9. Facing the Past: Human Skulls, Facial Reconstruction, and National Identity in the Middle East, by Elise K. Burton

10. Racism and Weightism in the Māori Community: From Weight-Focused Health to Indigenous Solutions, by Isaac Warbrick

11. After Race Classification: Grappling with South African Indigenous DNA in Practice, by Noah Tamarkin

12. The South Asian Heart Disease Paradox: History, Epidemiology, and Contested Narratives of Susceptibility, by Alyssa Botelho and David S. Jones

13. Roots of Coincidence: The Racial Politics of COVID-19, by Banu Subramaniam

List of Contributors

Index.

Notes:

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780231556927

0231556926

OCLC:

1427068540