Explores the ways science, politics, and large corporations affect race in the twenty-first century, discussing the efforts and results of the Human Genome Project, and describing how technology-driven science researchers are developing a genetic definition of race.
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Contents
I. Believing in race in the genomic age -- Invention of race -- Separating racial science from racism -- 2. The new racial science -- Redefining race in genetic terms -- Medical stereotyping -- Allure of race in biomedical research -- Embodying race -- 3. Pharmacoethnicity -- Color-coded pills -- Race and the new biocitizen -- Tracing racial roots -- 4. Genetic surveillance -- Biological race in a "postracial" America -- Crossroads.
