{"id":48587,"date":"2016-08-07T20:21:07","date_gmt":"2016-08-07T20:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=48587"},"modified":"2016-10-19T20:53:40","modified_gmt":"2016-10-19T20:53:40","slug":"genetics-against-race-science-politics-and-affirmative-action-in-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=48587","title":{"rendered":"Genetics against race: Science, politics and affirmative action in Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1177\/0306312715610217\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Genetics against race: Science, politics and affirmative action in Brazil<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sss.sagepub.com\" target=\"_blank\">Social Studies of Science<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/sss.sagepub.com\/content\/45\/6.toc\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 45, Number 6<\/a> (December 2015)<br \/>\npages 816-838<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1177\/0306312715610217\" target=\"_blank\">10.1177\/0306312715610217<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.manchester.ac.uk\/research\/peter.wade\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Peter Wade<\/strong><\/a>, Professor of Social Anthropology<br \/>\n<em>University of Manchester<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.manchester.ac.uk\/research\/michael.kent\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Michael Kent<\/strong><\/a>, Honorary Research Fellow in Social Anthropology<br \/>\nSchool of Social Sciences<br \/>\n<em>University of Manchester<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This article analyses interrelations between genetic ancestry research, political conflict and social identity. It focuses on the debate on race-based <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Affirmative_action\" target=\"_blank\">affirmative action<\/a> policies, which have been implemented in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brazil\" target=\"_blank\">Brazil<\/a> since the turn of the century. Genetic evidence of high levels of admixture in the Brazilian population has become a key element of arguments that question the validity of the category of race for the development of public policies. In response, members of Brazil\u2019s black movement have dismissed the relevance of genetics by arguing, first, that in Brazil race functions as a social \u2013 rather than a biological \u2013 category, and, second, that racial classification and discrimination in this country are based on appearance, rather than on <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Genotype\" target=\"_blank\">genotype<\/a>. This article highlights the importance of power relations and political interests in shaping public engagements with genetic research and their social consequences.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/sss.sagepub.com\/content\/45\/6\/816.full.pdf+html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Genetics against race: Science, politics and affirmative action in Brazil Social Studies of Science Volume 45, Number 6 (December 2015) pages 816-838 DOI: 10.1177\/0306312715610217 Peter Wade, Professor of Social Anthropology University of Manchester Michael Kent, Honorary Research Fellow in Social Anthropology School of Social Sciences University of Manchester This article analyses interrelations between genetic ancestry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,12,83,21,2039,8,26,394],"tags":[16562,1864,2467],"class_list":["post-48587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-articles","category-brazil","category-latincarib","category-health-medicine","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-socialscience","tag-michael-kent","tag-peter-wade","tag-social-studies-of-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48588,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48587\/revisions\/48588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}