Tabula raza mapping race and human diversity in American genome science / Duana Fullwiley.

Author/creator Fullwiley, Duana
Format Electronic
Publication InfoOakland, California : University of California Press, [2024]
Description1 online resource
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SeriesAtelier : ethnographic inquiry in the twenty-first century ; 14
Atelier (Oakland, Calif.) ; 14. ^A1461498
Contents Introduction : America and the tabula raza -- Genomic world building -- From mundus to model to mundus again -- Making race -- For the love of blackness -- Look, a black guy! -- A family affair -- Sci non-fi -- Seeing ghosts -- Conclusion.
Abstract "Duana Fullwiley has penned an intimate chronicle of laboratory life in the genomic age. She presents many of the influential scientists at the forefront of genetics who have redefined how we practice medicine and law and understand ancestry in an era of big data and waning privacy. Exceedingly relatable and human, the scientists in these pages often struggle for visibility, teeter on the tightrope of inclusion, and work tirelessly to imprint the future. As they actively imagine a more equal and just world, they often find themselves ensnared in reproducing timeworn conceits of race and racism that can seed the same health disparities they hope to resolve. Nothing dynamic can live for long as a blank slate, an innocent tabula rasa. But how the blank slate of the once-raceless human genome became one of racial differences, in various forms of what Fullwiley calls the tabula raza, has a very specific and familiar history-one that has cycled through the ages in unexpected ways"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
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Issued in other formPrint version: Fullwiley, Duana. Tabula raza Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2024] 9780520401167
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LCCN 2023040931
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