Tag: Troy Duster

  • 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.

  • Human Variation: A Genetic Perspective on Diversity, Race, and Medicine Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press 2014 131 pages (21 4C, 5B&W), index Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-621820-90-1 Paperback ISBN: 978-1-936113-25-5 Edited by: Aravinda Chakravarti, Professor of Medicine, Pediatrics, Molecular Biology & Genetics, and, Biostatistics Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Institute of Genetic Medicine Since the appearance…

  • A Post-Genomic Surprise: the molecular reinscription of race in science, law and medicine The London School of Economics and Political Science Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building London, United Kingdom 2014-11-06 Speaker: Troy Duster, Chancellor’s Professor of Sociology Warren Institute on Law and Social Policy University of California, Berkeley Chair: Nigel Dodd, Professor of Sociology…

  • Mexico boasts a staggering genetic diversity, study shows Los Angeles Times 2014-06-12 Geoffrey Mohan SHARELINES ▼ DNA offers a nuanced answer to what it means to be Mexican ▼ Ancient genetic signal survived conquest in Mexico ▼ Latino and Hispanic labels don’t do justice to Mexico’s genome Writers, artists and historians have long pondered what…

  • Race Radiolab Season 5, Episode 3, April 2014 Shea Walsh This hour of Radiolab, a look at race. When the human genome was first fully mapped in 2000, Bill Clinton, Craig Venter, and Francis Collins took the stage and pronounced that “The concept of race has no genetic or scientific basis.” Great words spoken with…

  • Deep Roots and Tangled Branches The Chronicle of Higher Education 2006-02-03 Troy Duster, Chancellor’s Professor of Sociology University of California, Berkeley Also Professor of Sociology and Director of the Institute for the History of the Production of Knowledge New York University People who know their biological parents and grandparents typically take the information for granted.…

  • What Can DNA Really Tell Us About Race? UCtelevision Unviersity of California 2007-04-25 00:54:55 Introduction by Howard Winnant, Professor of Sociology University of California, Santa Barbara Troy Duster, Chancellor’s Professor of Sociology University of California, Berkeley and Professor of Sociology and Director of the Institute for the History of the Production of Knowledge New York University One…

  • What can DNA tell us about our genetic lineage, and where does it fall short? What explains Vy Higgensen’s multiple results from different testing sites? Flawed methodology? Partial truths hyped as definitive findings? Did the testing companies use different methods or deploy different reference populations – or both?

  • Race and Reification in Science Science Magazine Volume 307 2005-02-18 pages 1050-1051 Troy Duster, Professor of Sociology New York University Alfred North Whitehead warned many years ago about “the fallacy of misplaced concreteness” (1), by which he meant the tendency to assume that categories of thought coincide with the obdurate character of the empirical world.…

  • “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,…