Ordering the human : the global spread of racial science / edited by Eram Alam, Dorothy Roberts, and Natalie Shibley.
"Much of modern science, medicine, and ideas of race have coeval and violent origins, entangled together for centuries in the forms of racial science, which themselves have been used to propel projects of power and domination around the world. Ordering the Human explores this entanglement. It d...
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| Language: | English |
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Columbia University Press,
[2024]
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| Series: | Race, inequality, and health.
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Note from the Series Editors
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- PART ONE Stability and Circulation
- ONE Origins of Races, Organs of Intellect: Polygenism, Political Order, and the Enlightenment Construction of Cranial Race Science
- TWO Unbecoming Subjects Psychiatry, Race, and Disordering the Human
- THREE Locating the Child in Racial Science: Scenes from Latin America
- FOUR Race and Sameness: On Ordering the Human and the Specificities of Us-ness and Other-ness
- FIVE The Racial Calculus: Security and Policy During the COVID-19 Global Pandemic
- PART TWO Purity and Mixture
- SIX Biometric Hybridity: Anglo-Indians, Race, and National Science in India, 1916-1969
- SEVEN "Multicultural Genes in Our Blood"? Genetic Governance and Biocultural Purity in South Korea
- EIGHT The Dilemmas of Racial Classification in Brazil: Reflections on Two Contemporary Case Studies
- PART THREE Past and Promise
- NINE Facing the Past: Human Skulls, Facial Reconstruction, and National Identity in the Middle East
- TEN Racism and Weightism in the Māori Community: From Weight-Focused Health to Indigenous Solutions
- ELEVEN After Race Classification: Grappling with South African Indigenous DNA in Practice
- TWELVE The South Asian Heart Disease Paradox: History, Epidemiology, and Contested Narratives of Susceptibility
- THIRTEEN Roots of Coincidence: The Racial Politics of COVID-19
- Contributors
- Index