5. Ancestry Testing and DNA

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction: How Science Embraced the Racialization of Human Populations 1
6. Part I: Science and Race
7. 1. A Short History of the Race Concept 13
8. 2. Natural Selection, the Human Genome, and the Idea of Race 31
9. Part II: Forensic DNA Databases, Race, and the Criminal Justice System
10. 3. Racial Disparities in Databanking of DNA Profiles 47
11. 4. Prejudice, Stigma, and DNA Databases 68
12. Part III: Ancestry Testing
13. 5. Ancestry Testing and DNA 99
14. 6. Can DNA “Witness” Race? 116
15. Part IV: Racialized Medicine
16. 7. Bidil and Racialized Medicine 129
17. 8. Evolutionary Versus Racial Medicine 142
18. Part V: Intelligence and Race
19. 9. Myth and Mystification 173
20. 10. Intelligence, Race, and Genetics 195
21. Part VI: Contemporary Culture, Race, and Genetics
22. 11. The Elusive Variability of Race 241
23. 12. Race, Genetics, and the Regulatory Need for Race Impact Assessments 255
24. Conclusion 271
25. Contributors 279
26. Index 285