{"id":9947,"date":"2010-11-09T00:36:20","date_gmt":"2010-11-09T00:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=9947"},"modified":"2015-10-29T17:50:58","modified_gmt":"2015-10-29T17:50:58","slug":"%e2%80%9cslippin%e2%80%99-into-darkness%e2%80%9d-the-rebiologization-of-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=9947","title":{"rendered":"\u201cSlippin\u2019 Into Darkness\u201d: The (Re)Biologization of Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journals\/journal_of_asian_american_studies\/summary\/v013\/13.3.omi.html\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cSlippin\u2019 Into Darkness\u201d: The (Re)Biologization of Race<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journals\/journal_of_asian_american_studies\/toc\/jaas.13.3.html\" target=\"_blank\">Journal of Asian American Studies<br \/>\nVolume 13, Number 3<\/a> (October 2010)<br \/>\npages 343-358<br \/>\nE-ISSN: 1096-8598 Print ISSN: 1097-2129<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ethnicstudies.berkeley.edu\/faculty\/profile.php?person=11\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Omi<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies<br \/>\n<em>University of California, Berkeley<\/em><\/p>\n<p>While the dominant mantra in humanities and the social sciences is that \u201crace is a social construction, not a biological one,\u201d in the wake of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Human_Genome_Project\" target=\"_blank\">Human Genome Project<\/a>, a vigorous debate has emerged about whether race is indeed a meaningful and useful genetic concept. This essays argues that debates about the very concept of race\u2014the system of classification we employ, the meanings we ascribe to racial categories, and their use in social analysis and policy formation\u2014are rendered more complex, indeterminate, and muddy with the increasing re-biologization of race.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journals\/journal_of_asian_american_studies\/v013\/13.3.omi.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSlippin\u2019 Into Darkness\u201d: The (Re)Biologization of Race Journal of Asian American Studies Volume 13, Number 3 (October 2010) pages 343-358 E-ISSN: 1096-8598 Print ISSN: 1097-2129 Michael Omi, Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies University of California, Berkeley While the dominant mantra in humanities and the social sciences is that \u201crace is a social construction, not a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2039,8,394],"tags":[2682,499],"class_list":["post-9947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-health-medicine","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","tag-journal-of-asian-american-studies","tag-michael-omi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9947","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=9947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43573,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9947\/revisions\/43573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}