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Decoding Racial Ideology in Genomics<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Lexington Books<\/a> (an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield)
\nMay 2016
\n190 pages
\nSize: 6 x 9
\nHardback ISBN: 978-0-7391-4895-2
\neBook ISBN: 978-0-7391-4897-6<\/p>\n

Johnny E. Williams<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Professor of Sociology
\nTrinity College, Hartford, Connecticut<\/em><\/p>\n

Foreword by Joseph L. Graves Jr.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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Although the human genome<\/a> exists apart from society, knowledge about it is produced through socially-created language and interactions. As such, genomicists\u2019 thinking is informed by their inability to escape the wake of the \u2018race\u2019 concept. This book investigates how racism makes genomics and how genomics makes racism and \u2018race,\u2019 and the consequences of these constructions. Specifically, Williams explores how racial ideology works in genomics. The simple assumption that frames the book is that \u2018race\u2019 as an ideology justifying a system of oppression is persistently recreated as a practical and familiar way to understand biological reality. This book reveals that genomicists\u2019 preoccupation with \u2018race\u2019\u2014regardless of good or ill intent\u2014contributes to its perception as a category of differences that is scientifically rigorous.<\/p>\n