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Accepted Paper:
Reiterations and refigurations of race in Latin American genomic science
Peter Wade
(Manchester University)
Paper short abstract:
This paper will draw on a recent research project in Brazil, Colombia and Mexico to examine discourses of race and mestizaje as they appear in genomic science that focuses on "ancestry", human diversity and population genetics.
Paper long abstract:
This paper will draw on a recent research project in Brazil, Colombia and Mexico to examine discourses of race and mestizaje as they appear in genomic science that focuses on "ancestry", human diversity and population genetics. The paper explores how "race" is both reproduced and transformed - and what it means for "race" to be reproduced and transformed in a Latin American context, when the concept itself is so multivalent in that context. What is it exactly that is being reiterated and refigured?