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Date: 09 May 2005 10:08 -0400
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Subject: [EQ] Is Race Real? --A Web Forum Organized by the Social Science 
Research Council





"Is `Race' Real?" -- A Web Forum Organized by the Social Science Research
Council



Available at:  http://raceandgenomics.ssrc.org/





In a March 14, 2005, Op-Ed piece published in The New York Times, Dr.
Armand Marie Leroi, an evolutionary developmental biologist at Imperial
College in London, challenged scholarly approaches that treat race as a
social construction, arguing that recent research in the biological and the
social sciences offers fresh evidence that racial differences are
genetically identifiable. His editorial, "A Family Tree in Every Gene,"
expresses a more widespread tendency among certain communities of
researchers to revise longstanding scientific understandings about the
relationship between race and genetics.





The SSRC believes the subject of race and genomics warrants critical
reflection and debate among researchers and the broader public, given its
important implications across an array of disciplines in the biological and
social sciences, its potential impact on a number of policy domains, as
well as broader consequences for society at large. In an effort to
contribute to this discussion, we have commissioned a series of short
essays by leading researchers with a diverse set of disciplinary and
analytic perspectives. We hope this forum will serve as a tool for
scholars, educators, policy makers and students, and promote informed
debate on what is no doubt one of the most important public issues of our
time.





Contributors to the forum include:



Troy Duster, member and then chair of the advisory committee on Ethical,
Legal and Social Issues (ELSI) program at the National Human Genome

Research Institute (Human Genome Project), is president of the American
Sociological Association and has published widely on the subject of race

and genetics, including the book Back Door to Eugenics.



Alan Goodman is professor of biological anthropology at Hampshire College
and co-editor of Genetic Nature/Culture: Anthropology and Science Beyond

the Cultural Divide and Building a New Biocultural Synthesis:
Political-Economic Perspectives on Human Biology. He is president-elect of

the American Anthropological Association.



Evelynn M. Hammonds is professor of the history of science and of African
and African American studies at Harvard University. Her current work

focuses on the intersection of scientific, medical, and socio-political
concepts of race in the United States. She is completing a a book called

The Logic of Difference: A History of Race in Science and Medicine in the
 United States, 1850--1990.



Ruth Hubbard is Professor Emerita of Biology at Harvard University. She has
worked and written on the politics of health care since the early

1970s. In 1993 she and her son, Elijah Wald, wrote Exploding The Gene Myth:
How Genetic Information Is Produced and Manipulated by Scientists,

Physicians, Employers, Insurance Companies, Educators, and Law Enforcers.



Jay Kaufman is an assistant professor of epidemiology at the University of
North Carolina School of Public Health and a fellow of the Carolina

Population Center. He has written a number of articles on the ways in which
health status varies by race, class and other socioeconomic

quantities, and has co-written an important essay for the New England
Journal of Medicine called "Race and Genomics."



Nancy Krieger is associate professor of society, human development, and
health at Harvard University. She has published numerous articles on

social inequalities in health and has recently edited Embodying Inequality:
Epidemiologic Perspectives.



Roger N. Lancaster is professor of anthropology and director of the
Cultural Studies Ph.D. Program at George Mason University. His most recent

book is The Trouble with Nature: Sex in Science and Popular Culture.



R.C. Lewontin, Alexander Agassiz Professor Emeritus of Zoology at Harvard
University, has written a number of books and articles on evolution and

human variation, including Biology as Ideology: The Doctrine of DNA and The
Triple Helix: Gene, Organism, and Environment.



Jonathan Marks is a molecular anthropologist who teaches at the University
of North Carolina, Charlotte. He is author of Human Biodiversity and What

It Means to Be 98% Chimpanzee.



Ann Morning, assistant professor of sociology at New York University, has
published a number of articles having to do with race and ethnicity,

especially racial classification. Her most recent work is "Multiracial
Classification on the United States Census: Myth, Reality, and Future

Impact." Revue Européenne des Migrations Internationales, forthcoming.









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