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Genetics and the Unsettled Past - The Collision of DNA, Race, and History (Hardcover, New)
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Genetics and the Unsettled Past - The Collision of DNA, Race, and History (Hardcover, New)
Series: Rutgers Studies on Race and Ethnicity
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Our genetic markers have come to be regarded as portals to the
past. Analysis of these markers is increasingly used to tell the
story of human migration; to investigate and judge issues of social
membership and kinship; to rewrite history and collective memory;
to right past wrongs and to arbitrate legal claims and human rights
controversies; and to open new thinking about health and
well-being. At the same time, in many societies genetic evidence is
being called upon to perform a kind of racially charged cultural
work: to repair the racial past and to transform scholarly and
popular opinion about the "nature" of identity in the present.
Genetics and the Unsettled Past considers the alignment of genetic
science with commercial genealogy, with legal and forensic
developments, and with pharmaceutical innovation to examine how
these trends lend renewed authority to biological understandings of
race and history. This unique collection brings together scholars
from a wide range of disciplines-biology, history, cultural
studies, law, medicine, anthropology, ethnic studies, sociology-to
explore the emerging and often contested connections among race,
DNA, and history. Written for a general audience, the book's essays
touch upon a variety of topics, including the rise and implications
of DNA in genealogy, law, and other fields; the cultural and
political uses and misuses of genetic information; the way in which
DNA testing is reshaping understandings of group identity for
French Canadians, Native Americans, South Africans, and many others
within and across cultural and national boundaries; and the
sweeping implications of genetics for society today.
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