Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
4. Introduction: Genetic Claims and the Unsettled Past 1
5. PART ONE. History, Race, and the Genome Era
6. 1. Who Am I? Genes and the Problem of Historical Identity 13
7. 2. Reconciliation Projects: From Kinship to Justice 20
8. 3. The Unspoken Significance of Gender in Constructing Kinship, Race, and Nation 32
9. PART TWO. Decoding the Genomic Age
10. 4. A Biologist’s Perspective on DNA and Race in the Genomics Era 43
11. 5. The Dilemma of Classification: The Past in the Present 67
12. 6. The Informationalization of Race: Communication, Databases, and the Digital Coding of the Genome 81
13. 7. Forensic DNA Phenotyping: Continuity and Change in the History of Race, Genetics, and Policing 104
14. 8. Forensic DNA and the Inertial Power of Race in American Legal Practice 114
15. 9. Making History via DNA, Making DNA from History: Deconstructing the Race-Disease Connection in Admixture Mapping 143
16. 10. Waiting on the Promise of Prescribing Precision: Race in the Era of Pharmacogenomics 164
17. PART THREE. Stories Told in Blood
18. 11. French Families, Paper Facts: Genetics, Nation, and Explanation 183
19. 12. Categorization, Census, and Multiculturalism: Molecular Politics and the Material of Nation 204
20. 13. “It’s a Living History, Told by the Real Survivors of the Times—DNA”: Anthropological Genetics in the Tradition of Biology as Applied History 225
21. 14. Cells, Genes, and Stories: HeLa’s Journey from Labs to Literature 247
22. 15. The Case of the Genetic Ancestor 266
23. 16. Making Sense of Genetics, Culture, and History: A Case Study of a Native Youth Education Program 279
24. 17. Humanitarian DNA Identification in Post-Apartheid South Africa 295
25. 18. Forbidden or Forsaken? The (Mis)Use of a Forbidden Knowledge Argument in Research on Race, DNA, and Disease 315
26. 19. Genetic Claims and Credibility: Revisiting History and Remaking Race 325
27. CONTRIBUTORS 335
28. INDEX 341