Remapping Race in a Global Context

Ludovica Lorusso, Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther, Ludovica Lorusso, Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN: 9781138631434
• eBook ISBN: 9781351805018
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Sociology
• Index: Social Sciences

Investigating the reality and significance of racial categories, Remapping Race in a Global Context examines the role of race in human genomics, biomedicine, and struggles for social justice around the world.

In this book, biologists, anthropologists, historians, and philosophers inspect critical questions around the biological reality of race and how it has been understood in different national and regional contexts. The essays also examine debates on the usefulness of race in medical and epidemiological studies. With a focus on the fields of human genomics and biomedicine, this book presents critical findings on whether and how race might be ethically and epistemologically justified in our age of personalized medicine, mass surveillance, and biased algorithms.

The book will be of interest to researchers and advanced students in a broad range of scientific and humanistic disciplines, including biology, anthropology, geography, philosophy, cultural or community studies, critical race theory, and any field concerned with the deep racial dividing lines running across societies globally.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication Page
• Table of Contents
• List of illustrations
• List of contributors
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: remapping race in a global context
• Part I Lewontin (1972), 50 years later
• PART II Indigeneity, the Americas, and colonialism
• Part III On the biological non-reality of race
• Part IV On the biological reality of race
• Part V Race and medicine
• Postscript: race: the story without end
• Index