Ordering the Human: The Global Spread of Racial Science - Couverture souple

 
9780231207331: Ordering the Human: The Global Spread of Racial Science
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ISBN 10 : 0231207336 ISBN 13 : 9780231207331
Editeur : Columbia University Press, 2024

Synopsis

Modern science and ideas of race have long been entangled, sharing notions of order, classification, and hierarchy. Ordering the Human presents cutting-edge interdisciplinary scholarship that examines the racialization of science in various global contexts, illuminating how racial logics have been deployed to classify, marginalize, and oppress.

These wide-ranging essays--written by experts in genetics, forensics, public health, history, sociology, and anthropology--investigate the influence of racial concepts in scientific knowledge production across regions and eras. Chapters excavate the mechanisms by which racialized science serves projects of power and domination, and they explore different forms of resistance. Topics range from skull collecting by eighteenth-century German and Dutch scientists to the use of biology to reinforce notions of purity in present-day South Korea and Brazil. The authors investigate the colonial legacies of the pathologization of weight for the Maori people, the scientific presumption of coronary artery disease risk among South Asians, and the role of racial categories in COVID-19 statistics and responses, among many other cases. Tracing the pernicious consequences of the racialization of science, Ordering the Human shines a light on how the naturalization of racial categories continues to shape health and inequality today.

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À propos de l?auteur

Dorothy Roberts is A University professor of Law, Sociology, and Civil Rights a University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Recreate Race in the 21st Century (New Press 2011) and Killing the Black Body (Random House 1997).

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Éditeur
Columbia University Press
Date d'édition
2024
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0231207336
ISBN 13 
9780231207331
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
352
Éditeur
Alam Eram, Roberts Professor Dorothy, Shibley Natalie
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  0231207328 ISBN 13 :  9780231207324
Editeur : Columbia University Press, 2024
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