{"id":33447,"date":"2013-09-05T03:22:23","date_gmt":"2013-09-05T03:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=33447"},"modified":"2016-04-15T01:41:43","modified_gmt":"2016-04-15T01:41:43","slug":"race-and-justice-in-transnational-perspective-the-return-of-pseudoscientific-racism-dna-ancestry-testing-race-and-the-new-eugenics-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=33447","title":{"rendered":"Race and Justice in Transnational Perspective: “The Return of Pseudoscientific Racism? DNA Ancestry Testing, Race, and the New Eugenics Movement”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Race and Justice in Transnational Perspective: “The Return of Pseudoscientific Racism? DNA Ancestry Testing, Race, and the New Eugenics Movement”<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Seminar Series: Race and Justice in Transnational Perspective
\nUniversity of California, Merced
\nCalifornia Room
\n5200 North Lake Rd.
\nMerced, California 95343
\n2013-10-17, 10:30 PDT (Local Time)<\/p>\n

Paul Spickard<\/a><\/strong>, Professor of History
\nUniversity of California, Santa Barbara<\/em><\/p>\n

Ancestry.com wants you to swab your cheek and send them a DNA sample and a check.\u00a0 In return, they promise to tell you who your remote ancestors were.\u00a0 Eminent literary scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., performs the same miracle on national TV.\u00a0 Modern genetic technology, they promise, can tell you intimate details about your family’s past.\u00a0 Professor Spickard’s lecture examines the claims of the DNA ancestry testing industry, compares them to the assumptions and claims of the racialist pseudoscience of the late 19th and early 20th century, evaluates their validity, and suggests what may really be going on with this ancestry testing business.<\/p>\n

Paul Spickard is Professor of History and Affiliate Professor of Black Studies, Asian American Studies, East Asian Studies, Religious Studies, and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.\u00a0 He is author or editor of eighteen books and seventy-odd articles on race, migration, and related topics in the United States, the Pacific, Northeast Asia, and Europe, including:<\/p>\n