Race 🏃‍♂️ to the Finish. Identity 🆔 and ➕ Governance in an Age of Genomics

✅ In the summer of 1️⃣9️⃣9️⃣1️⃣, population geneticists and ➕ evolutionary biologists 👨‍🔬 proposed to archive human genetic diversity by collecting the genomes of isolated indigenous populations. Their initiative, which became known 💡 as the Human Genome Diversity Project, generated early enthusiasm from those who believed 💜 it would enable huge advances in our 👥⬅️ understanding of human evolution 🧬. However, vocal criticism soon 🔜 emerged. Physical anthropologists accused Project organizers of reimporting racist categories into science 🧪. Indigenous-rights ➡️ leaders saw 👀 a Vampire 🧛‍♀️ Project that sought the blood of indigenous people 👥 but not ❌️ their well-being. More than a decade later, the effort is barely off the ground. How did an initiative whose leaders included some of biologys most respected, socially conscious scientists 👨‍🔬 become so stigmatized How did these model citizen-scientists 👨‍🔬 come ⤵️ to be viewed as potential racists, even vampires 🧛 This book 📚️ argues that the long abeyance of the Diversity Project points 👈️ to larger, fundamental questions ❓️ about how to understand knowledge, democracy, and ➕ racism in an age when expert claims 🛄 about genomes increasingly shape the possibilities for being human. Jenny Reardon demonstrates that far from being innocent 😇 tools 🔪 for fighting racism, scientific ideas 💡 and ➕ practices embed consequential social and ➕ political decisions about who can 🥫 define race 🏃‍♂️, racism, and ➕ democracy, and ➕ for what ends 🔚. She 👤👩 calls 📞 for the adoption of novel conceptual tools 🔪 that do ...

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