{"id":53367,"date":"2017-04-10T00:44:02","date_gmt":"2017-04-10T00:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=53367"},"modified":"2017-04-10T00:58:17","modified_gmt":"2017-04-10T00:58:17","slug":"53367","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=53367","title":{"rendered":"Genetic Determinism, Technology Optimism, and Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1177\/0002716215587875\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Genetic Determinism, Technology Optimism, and Race<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/home\/ann\" target=\"_blank\">The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/toc\/anna\/661\/1\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 661, Issue 1, 2015<\/a><br \/>\npages 160-180<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1177\/0002716215587875\" target=\"_blank\">10.1177\/0002716215587875<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scholar.harvard.edu\/jlhochschild\/home\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Jennifer Hochschild<\/strong><\/a>, Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government; Professor of African and African American Studies<br \/>\n<em>Harvard University<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scholar.harvard.edu\/msen\/home\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Maya Sen<\/strong><\/a>, Assistant Professor of Public Policy<br \/>\n<em>Harvard University<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We begin with a typology of Americans\u2019 understanding of the links between genetic inheritance and racial or ethnic groups. The typology has two dimensions: one running from genetic determinism to social construction, and the other from technology optimism to technology pessimism. Construing each dimension as a dichotomy enables four distinct political perspectives on the possibilities for reducing racial inequality in the United States through <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Genomics\" target=\"_blank\">genomics<\/a>. We then use a new public opinion survey to analyze Americans\u2019 use of the typology. Survey respondents who perceive that some phenotypes are more prevalent in one group than another due to genetic factors are disproportionately technology optimists. Republicans and Democrats are equally likely to hold that set of views, as are self-identified blacks, whites, and Latinos. The article discusses the findings and speculates about alternative interpretations of the fact that partisanship and group identity do not differentiate Americans in their views of the links between genetic inheritance and racial inequality.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/dash.harvard.edu\/bitstream\/handle\/1\/30780208\/26140205.pdf?sequence=1\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We begin with a typology of Americans\u2019 understanding of the links between genetic inheritance and racial or ethnic groups. The typology has two dimensions: one running from genetic determinism to social construction, and the other from technology optimism to technology pessimism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2039,8,26,20],"tags":[11276,98,97,18863,1483],"class_list":["post-53367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-health-medicine","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","tag-annals-of-the-american-academy-of-political-and-social-science","tag-jennifer-hochschild","tag-jennifer-l-hochschild","tag-maya-sen","tag-the-annals-of-the-american-academy-of-political-and-social-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53367","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=53367"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53369,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53367\/revisions\/53369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}