Abstract
We may think we know who we are and where we come from, but we live in an age when science and business compete for our attention-telling us in the media, in courtrooms, in clinical settings, and in political contexts that they possess the secrets to our identities. Observing the multiple clashes in law, medicine, and politics, we may rightly ask: What degree of authority should we grant to the claims that geneticists have unlocked the past and uncovered the truth about racial or ethnic or national identities? Does the evidence support the sweeping claims that we have solved historical mysteries of racial origin and lineage once and for all, or settled other contentious disputes from the past with genetic analysis?.
Original language | English (US) |
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Title of host publication | Genetics and the Unsettled Past |
Subtitle of host publication | The Collision of DNA, Race, and History |
Publisher | Rutgers University Press |
Pages | 325-333 |
Number of pages | 9 |
ISBN (Print) | 9780813552545 |
State | Published - 2012 |
Externally published | Yes |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- General Social Sciences