Kahn The Uses of Diversity

How Race Has Become Entangled in Law, Politics, and Biology
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-0-231-56308-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 16, 432 Seiten

Reihe: Race, Inequality, and Health

Ranging across law, politics, science, and medicine, Jonathan Kahn examines the blurring of the distinction between social understandings of race and biological understandings of genetic variation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kahn, Jonathan

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Rechtswissenschaften Arbeitsrecht Antidiskriminierung (AGG), Gleichbehandlung
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizinische Ethik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction. Managing the Entanglement
1. The Roots of Modern Diversities
2. Modern Diversities Taking Shape
3. Forensic Diversity
4. Diversity Affirmed in the New Millenium
5. Diversity Machines: Race, Biology, and the Sweet Spot of Racialized Time
6. Getting Bodies: When Diversity Didn’t Matter
7. Bringing Diversity Back In
8. Genetic Entanglements of Sociolegal Diversity in the 2010s
9. Diversity and the Frames of Representation
10. Political Valences of Contemporary Genetic Diversity
Epilogue. Diversity’s Pandemic Distractions: A Case Study of the Contemporary Uses of Diversity
Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jonathan Kahn is a professor of law and biology at Northeastern University. He is the author of Race in a Bottle: The Story of BiDil and Racialized Medicine in a Post-Genomic Age (2013) and Race on the Brain: What Implicit Bias Gets Wrong About the Struggle for Racial Justice (2017), both published by Columbia University Press.