Acknowledgments
Introduction: Genetic Claims and the Unsettled Past
Part I: History, Race, and the Genome Era
1. Who Am I? Genes and the Problem of Historical Identity
2. Reconciliation Projects: From Kinship to Justice
3. The Unspoken Significance of Gender in Constructing Kinship, Race, and Nation
Part II: Decoding the Genomic Age
4. A Biologist's Perspective on DNA and Race in the Genomics Era
5. The Dilemma of Classification: The Past in the Present
6. The Informationalization of Race: Communication, Databases, and the Digital Coding of the Genome
7. Forensic DNA Phenotyping: Continuity and Change in the History of Race, Genetics, and Policing
8. Forensic DNA and the Inertial Power of Race in American Legal Practice
9. Making History via DNA, Making DNA from History: Deconstructing the Race-Disease Connection in Admixture Mapping
10. Waiting on the Promise of Prescribing Precision: Race in the Era of Pharmacogenomics
Part III: Stories Told in Blood
11. French Families, Paper Facts: Genetics, Nation, and Explanation
12. Categorization, Census, and Multiculturalism: Molecular Politics and the Material of Nation
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
14. Cells, Genes, and Stories: HeLa's Journey from Labs to Literature
15. The Case of the Genetic Ancestor
16. Making Sense of Genetics, Culture, and History: A Case Study of a Native Youth Education Program
17. Humanitarian DNA Identification in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Conclusions: The Unsettled Past
18. Forbidden or Forsaken? The (Mis)Use of a Forbidden Knowledge Argument in Research on Race, DNA, and Disease
19. Genetic Claims and Credibility: Revisiting History and Remaking Race
Contributors
Index
