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Ordering the Human

The Global Spread of Racial Science
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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.

Author Biography:

Eram Alam is an assistant professor in the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University. Dorothy Roberts is the George A. Weiss University Professor of Law & Sociology, Raymond Pace & Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights, professor of Africana studies, and director of the Program on Race, Science, and Society at the University of Pennsylvania. Natalie Shibley is a visiting assistant professor of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at Northeastern University.
Release date Australia
April 9th, 2024
Audience
  • Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Contributors
  • Edited by Dorothy Roberts
  • Edited by Eram Alam
  • Edited by Natalie Shibley
Pages
352
ISBN-13
9780231207324
Product ID
38310773

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