{"id":23159,"date":"2012-05-17T02:22:48","date_gmt":"2012-05-17T02:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=23159"},"modified":"2017-05-12T15:14:58","modified_gmt":"2017-05-12T15:14:58","slug":"race-decoded-the-genomic-fight-for-social-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=23159","title":{"rendered":"Race Decoded: The Genomic Fight for Social Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"

Race Decoded: The Genomic Fight for Social Justice<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Stanford University Press<\/a>
\nApril 2012
\n280 pages
\nCloth ISBN: 9780804774079
\nPaper ISBN: 9780804774086
\nE-book: ISBN: 9780804782050<\/p>\n

Catherine Bliss<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor of Sociology
\nUniversity of California, San Francisco<\/em><\/p>\n

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Winner of the 2014 Oliver Cromwell Cox Award, sponsored by the ASA Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities.<\/em><\/p>\n

In 2000, with the success of the Human Genome Project<\/a>, scientists declared the death of race in biology and medicine. But within five years, many of these same scientists had reversed course and embarked upon a new hunt for the biological meaning of race. Drawing on personal interviews and life stories, Race Decoded<\/em> takes us into the world of elite genome scientists\u2014including Francis Collins<\/a>, director of the NIH<\/a>; Craig Venter<\/a>, the first person to create a synthetic genome; and Spencer Wells<\/a>, National Geographic Society<\/a> explorer-in-residence, among others\u2014to show how and why they are formulating new ways of thinking about race.<\/p>\n

In this original exploration, Catherine Bliss reveals a paradigm shift, both at the level of science and society, from colorblindness to racial consciousness. Scientists have been fighting older understandings of race in biology while simultaneously promoting a new grand-scale program of minority inclusion. In selecting research topics or considering research design, scientists routinely draw upon personal experience of race to push the public to think about race as a biosocial entity, and even those of the most privileged racial and social backgrounds incorporate identity politics in the scientific process. Though individual scientists may view their positions differently\u2014whether as a black civil rights activist or a white bench scientist\u2014all stakeholders in the scientific debates are drawing on memories of racial discrimination to fashion a science-based activism to fight for social justice.<\/p>\n

Table of Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n