J B Torres
Biographic Data
| ID | 53640 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J B Torres |
| GIVEN NAMES | J B |
| FAMILY NAME | Torres |
| SIGNATURE | TORRES J B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vanderbilt University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9678-4038 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 48 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Pathologizing Race and the Utility of Racial Experience for Addressing Women's Health Disparities
Despite the increasing recognition that race is not biology within biomedical sciences, race is steadfastly called upon as an explanatory risk factor for many diseases, especially diseases that disproportionally impact minoritized populations. One condition, uterine fibroids, disproportionately burdens Black women to the point that “Black race” is considered a risk factor for the development of this condition. This pathologization of race in gene…
Exploring the Relationship Between Stress, Salivary C‐Reactive Protein, and Embodied Physiological Responses in a Nigerian Population
Socio-demographic predictors like BMI, age, sex, and particularly ethnic group experience in Nigeria encapsulate aspects of embodied stress, that significantly affect sCRP variability
Racial Experience in the Age of Direct-to-Consumer Ancestry Testing
The Biology of Racism
Anthropological perspectives on genomic data, genetic ancestry, and race
Human variation, including questions about race, have been central to biological anthropology since its emergence as a professional discipline in the early 20th century. More recently, genomic data have been used to address open questions about the nature and scope of human variation. Results from genome‐wide association studies and commercially available direct‐to‐consumer genetic ancestry tests have also kindled scholarly debate about the relat…
Race, Rare Genetic Variants, and the Science of Human Difference in the Post‐Genomic Age
Understanding of human genetic variation has grown significantly in the twenty-first century but has not been adequately incorporated into anti-racist anthropological perspectives. Research into the underlying structure of human disease suggests that common diseases may be caused by rare genetic variants. These variants tend to be specific to populations that are oftentimes racially defined. Consequently, genetic studies that seek to identify dis…
Analysis of biogeographic ancestry reveals complex genetic histories for indigenous communities of St. Vincent and Trinidad
OBJECTIVES: From a genetic perspective, relatively little is known about how mass emigrations of African, European, and Asian peoples beginning in the 16th century affected Indigenous Caribbean populations. Therefore, we explored the impact of serial colonization on the genetic variation of the first Caribbean islanders. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Sixty-four members of St. Vincent's Garifuna Community and 36 members of Trinidad's Santa Rosa First Peo…
A Parrot among John Crows: Diversity as Risk and Reward
Reparational’ Genetics: Genomic Data and the Case for Reparations in the Caribbean
Drawing on my population genomic research among several Caribbean communities, I consider how ongoing Caribbean reparations movements index genomic information. Specifically, I examine the intersection between genetic ancestry and calls for reparatory justice to gain insight into the ways that scientific data are utilized in social articulations of both racial and indigenous identity. I argue that when contextualized within complex historical and…
Investigating the "Taíno" ancestry of the Jamaican Maroons: A new genetic (DNA), historical, and multidisciplinary analysis and case study of the Accompong Town Maroons
While scholars like Henry Louis Gates, Jr., have popularized the use of genetic data (DNA) as a source of African American history and ancestry, similar studies are lacking for other peoples of African descent. The current study is an interdisciplinary, collaborative research project undertaken by a historian of Africa and the African diaspora in the Americas and a genetic anthropologist. Methodologically, we incorporate traditional sources of hi…
Genetic Anthropology and Archaeology: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Human History in the Caribbean
Archaeological perspectives have been foundational in addressing questions regarding the initial peopling of the Caribbean Basin. As highlighted by Scott Fitzpatrick's recent review article in Pale
Origins of marronage: Mitochondrial lineages of J amaica's A ccompong T own M aroons
OBJECTIVES: The Accompong Town Maroons are descendants of enslaved Africans who successfully waged war against British colonial rule and established an independent community in western Jamaica. There are discrepancies regarding Accompong Town Maroon ancestry with some scholars noting ancestry from both Africans and Taínos, Jamaica's indigenous population, while other scholars only acknowledge African ancestry. We considered the mitochondrial line…
Prospecting the past: Genetic perspectives on the extinction and survival of indigenous peoples of the Caribbean
In this paper, I examine discourses of survival and extinction regarding the fates of indigenous Caribbean peoples and the manner in which genetic ancestry data influences these discourses. I argue that ideas of extinction and survival are intricately tied in places where a hybrid national identity is generally accepted, thus making the incorporation of genetic data into these debates more malleable. Meanwhile, other Caribbean contexts present th…
An anthropological genetic perspective on creolization in the anglophone caribbean
Variable socio‐cultural influences developed in the colonial Caribbean as a result of competing European hegemonic rule. In this study, we examine how colonial regulations regarding social hierarchies and mate choice worked to influence the genetic landscape of contemporary African Caribbean populations. To this end, 420 individuals from Dominica, Grenada, St. Kitts, St. Lucia, St. Thomas, St. Vincent, Jamaica, and Trinidad were genotyped for 105…
Anthropological perspectives on genomic data, genetic ancestry, and race
Human variation, including questions about race, have been central to biological anthropology since its emergence as a professional discipline in the early 20th century. More recently, genomic data have been used to address open questions about the nature and scope of human variation. Results from genome‐wide association studies and commercially available direct‐to‐consumer genetic ancestry tests have also kindled scholarly debate about the relat…
The Biology of Racism
Race, Rare Genetic Variants, and the Science of Human Difference in the Post‐Genomic Age
Understanding of human genetic variation has grown significantly in the twenty-first century but has not been adequately incorporated into anti-racist anthropological perspectives. Research into the underlying structure of human disease suggests that common diseases may be caused by rare genetic variants. These variants tend to be specific to populations that are oftentimes racially defined. Consequently, genetic studies that seek to identify dis…
Analysis of biogeographic ancestry reveals complex genetic histories for indigenous communities of St. Vincent and Trinidad
OBJECTIVES: From a genetic perspective, relatively little is known about how mass emigrations of African, European, and Asian peoples beginning in the 16th century affected Indigenous Caribbean populations. Therefore, we explored the impact of serial colonization on the genetic variation of the first Caribbean islanders. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Sixty-four members of St. Vincent's Garifuna Community and 36 members of Trinidad's Santa Rosa First Peo…
A Parrot among John Crows: Diversity as Risk and Reward
An anthropological genetic perspective on creolization in the anglophone caribbean
Variable socio‐cultural influences developed in the colonial Caribbean as a result of competing European hegemonic rule. In this study, we examine how colonial regulations regarding social hierarchies and mate choice worked to influence the genetic landscape of contemporary African Caribbean populations. To this end, 420 individuals from Dominica, Grenada, St. Kitts, St. Lucia, St. Thomas, St. Vincent, Jamaica, and Trinidad were genotyped for 105…
Reparational’ Genetics: Genomic Data and the Case for Reparations in the Caribbean
Drawing on my population genomic research among several Caribbean communities, I consider how ongoing Caribbean reparations movements index genomic information. Specifically, I examine the intersection between genetic ancestry and calls for reparatory justice to gain insight into the ways that scientific data are utilized in social articulations of both racial and indigenous identity. I argue that when contextualized within complex historical and…
Investigating the "Taíno" ancestry of the Jamaican Maroons: A new genetic (DNA), historical, and multidisciplinary analysis and case study of the Accompong Town Maroons
While scholars like Henry Louis Gates, Jr., have popularized the use of genetic data (DNA) as a source of African American history and ancestry, similar studies are lacking for other peoples of African descent. The current study is an interdisciplinary, collaborative research project undertaken by a historian of Africa and the African diaspora in the Americas and a genetic anthropologist. Methodologically, we incorporate traditional sources of hi…
An anthropological genetic perspective on creolization in the anglophone caribbean
Variable socio‐cultural influences developed in the colonial Caribbean as a result of competing European hegemonic rule. In this study, we examine how colonial regulations regarding social hierarchies and mate choice worked to influence the genetic landscape of contemporary African Caribbean populations. To this end, 420 individuals from Dominica, Grenada, St. Kitts, St. Lucia, St. Thomas, St. Vincent, Jamaica, and Trinidad were genotyped for 105…
Prospecting the past: Genetic perspectives on the extinction and survival of indigenous peoples of the Caribbean
In this paper, I examine discourses of survival and extinction regarding the fates of indigenous Caribbean peoples and the manner in which genetic ancestry data influences these discourses. I argue that ideas of extinction and survival are intricately tied in places where a hybrid national identity is generally accepted, thus making the incorporation of genetic data into these debates more malleable. Meanwhile, other Caribbean contexts present th…
Origins of marronage: Mitochondrial lineages of J amaica's A ccompong T own M aroons
OBJECTIVES: The Accompong Town Maroons are descendants of enslaved Africans who successfully waged war against British colonial rule and established an independent community in western Jamaica. There are discrepancies regarding Accompong Town Maroon ancestry with some scholars noting ancestry from both Africans and Taínos, Jamaica's indigenous population, while other scholars only acknowledge African ancestry. We considered the mitochondrial line…
Genetic Anthropology and Archaeology: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Human History in the Caribbean
Archaeological perspectives have been foundational in addressing questions regarding the initial peopling of the Caribbean Basin. As highlighted by Scott Fitzpatrick's recent review article in Pale
Reparational’ Genetics: Genomic Data and the Case for Reparations in the Caribbean
Drawing on my population genomic research among several Caribbean communities, I consider how ongoing Caribbean reparations movements index genomic information. Specifically, I examine the intersection between genetic ancestry and calls for reparatory justice to gain insight into the ways that scientific data are utilized in social articulations of both racial and indigenous identity. I argue that when contextualized within complex historical and…
Investigating the "Taíno" ancestry of the Jamaican Maroons: A new genetic (DNA), historical, and multidisciplinary analysis and case study of the Accompong Town Maroons
While scholars like Henry Louis Gates, Jr., have popularized the use of genetic data (DNA) as a source of African American history and ancestry, similar studies are lacking for other peoples of African descent. The current study is an interdisciplinary, collaborative research project undertaken by a historian of Africa and the African diaspora in the Americas and a genetic anthropologist. Methodologically, we incorporate traditional sources of hi…
Race, Rare Genetic Variants, and the Science of Human Difference in the Post‐Genomic Age
Understanding of human genetic variation has grown significantly in the twenty-first century but has not been adequately incorporated into anti-racist anthropological perspectives. Research into the underlying structure of human disease suggests that common diseases may be caused by rare genetic variants. These variants tend to be specific to populations that are oftentimes racially defined. Consequently, genetic studies that seek to identify dis…
Analysis of biogeographic ancestry reveals complex genetic histories for indigenous communities of St. Vincent and Trinidad
OBJECTIVES: From a genetic perspective, relatively little is known about how mass emigrations of African, European, and Asian peoples beginning in the 16th century affected Indigenous Caribbean populations. Therefore, we explored the impact of serial colonization on the genetic variation of the first Caribbean islanders. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Sixty-four members of St. Vincent's Garifuna Community and 36 members of Trinidad's Santa Rosa First Peo…
A Parrot among John Crows: Diversity as Risk and Reward
Anthropological perspectives on genomic data, genetic ancestry, and race
Human variation, including questions about race, have been central to biological anthropology since its emergence as a professional discipline in the early 20th century. More recently, genomic data have been used to address open questions about the nature and scope of human variation. Results from genome‐wide association studies and commercially available direct‐to‐consumer genetic ancestry tests have also kindled scholarly debate about the relat…
The Biology of Racism
Racial Experience in the Age of Direct-to-Consumer Ancestry Testing
Exploring the Relationship Between Stress, Salivary C‐Reactive Protein, and Embodied Physiological Responses in a Nigerian Population
Socio-demographic predictors like BMI, age, sex, and particularly ethnic group experience in Nigeria encapsulate aspects of embodied stress, that significantly affect sCRP variability
Pathologizing Race and the Utility of Racial Experience for Addressing Women's Health Disparities
Despite the increasing recognition that race is not biology within biomedical sciences, race is steadfastly called upon as an explanatory risk factor for many diseases, especially diseases that disproportionally impact minoritized populations. One condition, uterine fibroids, disproportionately burdens Black women to the point that “Black race” is considered a risk factor for the development of this condition. This pathologization of race in gene…
Sociology (10 works) · Biology (9 works) · Race, Genetics, and Society (9 works) · Anthropology (7 works) · Forensic and Genetic Research (7 works) · History (7 works) · Demography (6 works) · Population (6 works) · Genealogy (5 works) · History (5 works)