The Genetic Reinscription of Race
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2969441 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nadia Abu El-Haj (0000-0003-2857-6645, Department of Anthropology, Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 283-300 |
| Publication date | 2007-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Annual Review of Anthropology (BOOK_SERIES) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0084-6570 • E-ISSN: 1545-4290 |
| Publisher | Annual Reviews (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1146/annurev.anthro.34.081804.120522 |
| OpenAlex | W2166938544 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 132 |
| References cited | 100 |
Critics have debated for the past decade or more whether race is dead or alive in "the new genetics": Is genomics opening up novel terrains for social identities or is it reauthorizing race? I explore the relationship between race and the new genetics by considering whether this "race" is the same scientific object as that produced by race science and whether these race-making practices are animated by similar social and political logics. I consider the styles of reasoning characteristic of the scientific work together with the economic and political rationalities of neo-liberalism, including identity politics as it meets biological citizenship. I seek to understand why and how group-based diversity emerges as an object of value-something to be studied and specified, something to be fought for and embraced, and something that is profitable-in the networks that sustain the world of (post)genomics today
Aesthetics · Biology · Citizenship · Diversity (politics · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Identity (music · Indigenous · Object (grammar · Political science · Politics · Race (biology · Social science · Sociology · Value (mathematics · Anthropology · Computer Science · Ecology · Gender Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Philosophy · Race, Genetics, and Society
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Mexican Samples, Latino DNA
Bridgework
Virtual Geographies of Belonging
Excavating the Personal Genome
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Un/Doing Race: On Technology, Individuals, and Collectives in Forensic Practice
New Genetics and Race
Genetics
Indexing, Coding, Scoring
Science, Race, and Racism
Na Pista De Frantz Fanon
Anti-racism, racism, and the microbiome
Extended DNA analyses
Naturalizing Coercion
Making Peasants Protestant and Other Projects
Billions Served
Deception by Design
La (dé)problématisation de l’origine des suspects établie par l’ADN
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Encoding Race, Encoding Class
Genetic diaspora, genetic return (reviewing N. A. El-Haj, The genealogical science
Migrants, inequalities and social research in the 1920s
Relative Risk
“One Unique You”
Spillers's baby, anthropology's maybe
Race and racism
Anthropology, Museums and the Body
« Chassez le naturel… »
Race and Biomedicine Beyond the Lab
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Prospecting the past
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Flickering Presence
New Roots
Race in South Asia
Translational biomedicine in action
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The face as folded object
The Biologistical Construction of Race
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Genome geographies
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Nation and the Absent Presence of Race in Latin American Genomics
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Mind the Gap
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Biology and Criminology
Negotiated Categories
Orphan DNA
The importance of being Uros
Science and Struggle
Race in an epigenetic time
Race as technology and the carceral methodologies of molecular racialization
A different kind of association between socio-histories and health
Race, post-genomic science and good intentions
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Topologies of Race
The Trouble with Race in Forensic Identification
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Biological Citizenship Reconsidered
Looking for Race in All the Wrong Places
Racializing infertility
Biocultural citizenship and embodying exceptionalism
Racial taxonomy in genomics
The contested meanings of race and ethnicity in medical research
Blood Has No Colour
The Genomic Revolution and Beliefs about Essential Racial Differences
American Genomics in Barbados
Legacies of Derrida
The Genetic Reinscription of Race
Racialisation and racial formation in urban spaces
DNA Identities
Genetic Diaspora
An Archipelago of Signifiers
The 'savage' child and the nature of race
Inheritance at the Limits
Racial hygiene
The molecular vision of life
Dying in the city of the blues
Risk Society
The normal and the pathological
Inclusion, Diversity, and Biomedical Knowledge Making
Picturing Personhood
Biocapital
The Taming of Chance
Life Exposed
The Idea of Race in Science
The Human Genome Diversity Project
The Ethics of Identity
Backdoor to Eugenics
Race and Genomics
Skin pigmentation, biogeographical ancestry and admixture mapping
Racial Profiling in Medical Research
The Apportionment of Human Diversity
Race, culture, and evolution
The Nazi Doctors
In the Name of Eugenics
Victorian Anthropology
Race to the Finish
How Users Matter
Testing Women, Testing the Fetus
French DNA
The Debate over Race
Inventing the Heterozygote
Social Science and the Politics of Modern Jewish Identity
The Politics of Life Itself
Genetic Nature/Culture
From Savage to Negro
Neo-liberalism and the End of Liberal Democracy
Beyond Nature and Culture
Genetics in the United States and Great Britain, 1890-1930
Biopower Today
Race, Gender, Science and Citizenship
The Retreat of Scientific Racism
The Biologistical Construction of Race
Rethinking genetic genealogy
The Idea of Race
Racism and Human Genome Diversity Research
Eugenics and the Progressives
White By Definition
The Biological Reification of Race
Getting the Numbers Right
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The Devil and the One Drop Rule
Risk society
Risk and Responsibility
As white as anybody
The Naturalized Female Intellect
Stem Cells, Tissue Cultures and the Production of Biovalue
Interrogating the Human Diversity Genome Project
The Phenotype/Genotype Distinction and the Disappearance of the Body
Political Science Fictions
Endgame Identity? Mapping the New Left Roots of Identity Politics
Recombinant DNA Technology and Its Social Transformation, 1972-1982
Bodily Differences and Collective Identities
The Genetic Reinscription of Race
Making PCR
Essays on the Anthropology of Reason
Homo Sacer
Primate Visions
Financial Derivatives and the Globalization of Risk
Iceland
Life Exposed
Bioethnic Conscription
"Genomics, divination, "racecraft
Where ethics and politics meet
Subjects of Speculation
The Status of the Race Concept in Physical Anthropology
Human Races
The Persistence of Racial Thinking and the Myth of Racial Divergence
Genetics, Identity, and the Anthropology of Essentialism
The Privatization of Risk
The Politics of Life Itself
Genetic risk and the birth of the somatic individual
Interrogating Bodies
Micro-anatomo politics
| Unique citing works | 132 |
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| Citations per year | 6,95 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2025 (19) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 127 |