{"id":54412,"date":"2017-07-07T18:18:47","date_gmt":"2017-07-07T18:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=54412"},"modified":"2017-07-07T18:18:47","modified_gmt":"2017-07-07T18:18:47","slug":"is-science-racist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=54412","title":{"rendered":"Is science racist?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/politybooks.com\/bookdetail\/?isbn=9780745689210\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Is science racist?<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/politybooks.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Polity<\/a><br \/>\nJanuary 2017<br \/>\n140 pages<br \/>\n122 x 188 mm \/ 5 x 7 in<br \/>\nHardback ISBN: 9780745689210<br \/>\nPaperback ISBN: 9780745689227<br \/>\nOpen eBook ISBN: 9780745689258<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/anthropology.uncc.edu\/people\/marks-jonathan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Jonathan Marks<\/strong><\/a>, Professor of Anthropology<br \/>\n<em>University of North Carolina, Charlotte<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/politybooks.com\/bookdetail\/?isbn=9780745689210\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51ib7afPwQL._SX317_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Every arena of science has its own flash-point issues \u2013 chemistry and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chemical_warfare\">poison gas<\/a>, physics and the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nuclear_weapon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">atom bomb<\/a> \u2013 and genetics has had a troubled history with race. As Jonathan Marks reveals, this dangerous relationship rumbles on to this day, still leaving plenty of leeway for a belief in the basic natural inequality of races.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eugenics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">eugenic science<\/a> of the early twentieth century and the commodified <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Genomics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">genomic science<\/a> of today are unified by the mistaken belief that human races are naturalistic categories. Yet their boundaries are founded neither in biology nor genetics and, not being a formal scientific concept, race is largely not accessible to the scientist. As Marks argues, race can only be grasped through the humanities: historically, experientially, politically.<\/p>\n<p>This wise, witty essay explores the persistence and legacy of scientific racism, which misappropriates the authority of science and undermines it by converting it into a social weapon.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Table of Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Introduction<\/li>\n<li>How science invented race<\/li>\n<li>Science, race, and genomics<\/li>\n<li>Racism and biomedical science<\/li>\n<li>What we know, and why it matters<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This wise, witty essay explores the persistence and legacy of scientific racism, which misappropriates the authority of science and undermines it by converting it into a social weapon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,11,2039,459,8,17],"tags":[1761,8483,960],"class_list":["post-54412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-books","category-health-medicine","category-history","category-media-archive","category-monographs","tag-jonathan-marks","tag-polity","tag-polity-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54412","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=54412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54413,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54412\/revisions\/54413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}