Wade Peter Wade

Degrees of Mixture, Degrees of Freedom (eBook, PDF)

Genomics, Multiculturalism, and Race in Latin America

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Produktbeschreibung

Race mixture, or mestizaje, has played a critical role in the history, culture, and politics of Latin America. In Degrees of Mixture, Degrees of Freedom, Peter Wade draws on a multidisciplinary research study in Mexico, Brazil, and Colombia. He shows how Latin American elites and outside observers have emphasized mixture's democratizing potential, depicting it as a useful resource for addressing problems of racism (claiming that race mixture undoes racial difference and hierarchy), while Latin American scientists participate in this narrative with claims that genetic studies of mestizos can help isolate genetic contributors to diabetes and obesity and improve health for all. Wade argues that, in the process, genomics produces biologized versions of racialized difference within the nation and the region, but a comparative approach nuances the simple idea that highly racialized societies give rise to highly racialized genomics. Wade examines the tensions between mixture and purity, and between equality and hierarchy in liberal political orders, exploring how ideas and scientific data about genetic mixture are produced and circulate through complex networks.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822373070
• Artikelnr.: 54786377

Autorenporträt

Peter Wade is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester and the author and editor of many books, including Mestizo Genomics, also published by Duke University Press, and Race: An Introduction.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface  vii
Acknowledgments  xi
Introduction. Mixture as a Biological Process  1
I. Purity and Mixture
1. Purity and Mixture in Human Population Genetics  27
2. From Eugenics to Blood Types  53
II. Genetics and Multiculturalism
3. Changing Practices  85
4. Colombia, Country of Regions  99
5. Brazil, Race, and Affirmative Action  122
6. Mexico, Public Health, and State Genomics  146
7. Genomics & Multiculturalism: Comparisons and Continuities  166
III. Narrating Mixture
8. Gender, Genealogy, and Mestizaje  191
9. The Geneticization of Race and Diversity in Everyday Life 223
Conclusion  258
Notes  267
References  273
Index  315