Tag: Duana Fullwiley

  • Race has long been a potent way of defining differences between human beings. But science and the categories it constructs do not operate in a political vacuum.

  • Building a Face, and a Case, on DNA The New York Times 2015-02-23 Andrew Pollack The police in Columbia, S.C.,  released this sketch of a possible suspect based on DNA left at the crime scene. Parabon NanoLabs, which made the image, has begun offering DNA phenotyping services to law enforcement agencies. There were no known…

  • The Biologistical Construction of Race: ‘Admixture’ Technology and the New Genetic Medicine Social Studies of Science Volume 38, Number 5 (2008) pages 695-735 DOI: 10.1177/0306312708090796 Duana Fullwiley, Associate Professor of African and African American Studies and of Medical Anthropology Harvard University This paper presents an ethnographic case study of the use of race in two…

  • The Enculturated Gene: Sickle Cell Health Politics and Biological Difference in West Africa Princeton University Press 2011 368 pages 6 x 9; 7 halftones. 1 line illus. 4 maps Paper ISBN: 9780691123172 Cloth ISBN: 9780691123165 eBook ISBN: 9781400840410 Duana Fullwiley, Associate Professor of African and African American studies and of Medical Anthropology Harvard University In…

  • Race, Identity, and Medical Genomics in the Obama Age (Lecture by Duana Fullwiley) Fall 2010 Honors Colloquium: RACE University of Rhode Island Edwards Auditorium, URI Kingston Campus Tuesday, 2010-10-05, 19:00 ET (Local Time); (23:00Z) Duana Fullwiley, Assistant Professor of African and African American studies and of Medical Anthropology Harvard University A series of public programs…

  • “I am an African American,” says Duana Fullwiley, “but in parts of Africa, I am white.” To do fieldwork as a medical anthropologist in Senegal, she says, “I take a plane to France, a seven- to eight-hour ride. My race changes as I cross the Atlantic. There, I say, ‘Je suis noire,’ and they say,…

  • Fall 2010 Honors Colloquium: RACE University of Rhode Island Tuesday evenings, 19:00 ET (Local Time); (23:00Z through November; 00:00Z on Wednesday after November 9). 2010-09-14 through 2010-12-07 Edwards Auditorium, URI Kingston Campus A series of public programs at the University of Rhode Island presented by the URI Honors Program Join us! The public is invited…

  • Race and Genetics: Attempts to Define the Relationship BioSocieties Volume 2, Issue 2 (June 2007) pages 221-237 DOI: 10.1017/S1745855207005625 Duana Fullwiley, Associate Professor Anthropology Stanford University Many researchers working in the field of human genetics in the United States have been caught between two seemingly competing messages with regard to racial categories and genetic difference. As…

  • “I am an African American,” says Duana Fullwiley, “but in parts of Africa, I am white.” To do fieldwork as a medical anthropologist in Senegal, she says, “I take a plane to France, a seven- to eight-hour ride. My race changes as I cross the Atlantic. There, I say, ‘Je suis noire,’ and they say,…

  • Is it good medical practice for physicians to “eyeball” a patient’s race when assessing their medical status or even to ask them to identify their race?