Identity politics and the new genetics : re/creating categories of difference and belonging /
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| Imprint: | New York : Berghahn Books, 2012. |
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| Description: | 221 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies of the Biosocial Society ; v. 6 Studies of the Biosocial Society ; v. 6. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8681056 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Illustrations and Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Ideas in Motion: Making Sense of Identity After DNA
- Chapter 1. 'Race' as a Social Construction in Genetics
- Chapter 2. Mobile Identities and Fixed Categories: Forensic DNA and the Politics of Racialised Data
- Chapter 3. Race, Kinship and the Ambivalence of Identity
- Chapter 4. Identity, DNA, and the State in Post-Dictatorship Argentina
- Chapter 5. 'Do You Have Celtic, Jewish, Germanic Roots?' - Applied Swiss History Before and After DNA
- Chapter 6. Irish DNA: Making Connections and Making Distinctions in Y-Chromosome Surname Studies
- Chapter 7. Genomics en route: Ancestry, Heritage, and the Politics of Identity Across the Black Atlantic
- Chapter 8. Biotechnological Cults of Affliction? Race, Rationality, and Enchantment in Personal Genomic Histories
- Notes on Contributors
- Bibliography
- Index
