Reconsidering Race

Edited by Kazuko Suzuki, Associate Professor of Sociology, Texas A&M University, Edited by Diego A. von Vacano, Associate Professor of Political Science, Texas A&M University, and Preface by Henry Louis Gates, Jr, Alphonse Fletcher University Professor, Harvard University

Kazuko Suzuki is Associate Professor of Sociology at Texas A&M University and the author of Divided Fates: The State, Race, and Korean Immigrants' Adaptation in Japan and the United States, winner of the 2017 Book Award on Asia/Transnational from the Asia and Asian American Section of the American Sociological Association.

Diego A. von Vacano is Associate Professor of Political Science at Texas A&M University and the author of The Color of Citizenship: Race, Modernity and Latin American/Hispanic Political Thought and The Art of Power: Machiavelli, Nietzsche and the Making of Aesthetic Political Theory.

Ruha Benjamin is Associate Professor of African American studies at Princeton University and author of People's Science: Bodies and Rights on the Stem Cell Frontier.

Catherine Bliss is author of the book Race Decoded: The Genomic Fight for Social Justice and Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California San Francisco, where she explores the sociology of race, gender, and sexuality in science and society.

Rogers Brubaker is Professor of Sociology and UCLA Foundation Chair at the University of California, Los Angeles. Brubaker has written widely on social theory, immigration, citizenship, nationalism, and ethnicity.

Richard S. Cooper is Chair of the Department of Public Health Sciences at Loyola University, with a long-term interest in hypertension and related conditions in populations of African origin.

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University.

Dr. Joseph L. Graves, Jr. is Associate Dean for Research and Professor of Biological Sciences at the Joint School of Nanoscience & Nanoengineering in Greensboro, NC; his research concerns the genomics of adaptation as well as biological/social conceptions of race.

Jennifer Hochschild is the Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government at Harvard University, Professor of African and African American Studies, Harvard College Professor, and the Chair of the Department of Government.

Jay S. Kaufman is Professor and Canada Research Chair in Health Disparities in the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health at McGill University.

Michael Keevak is Professor of foreign languages at National Taiwan University.

Katherine A. Lyon is a Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of British Columbia, where she focuses on education and sexualities research.

Ann Morning is Associate Professor of Sociology at New York University, where she works on race and ethnicity, immigration, economic sociology, and comparative-historical analysis.

Wendy D. Roth is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of British Columbia, and author of the book Race Migrations.

Carolyn Rouse is Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology and the Director of the Program in African Studies at Princeton University. She is the author of Engaged Surrender: African American Women and Islam, Uncertain Suffering: Racial Healthcare Disparities and Sickle Cell Disease, and Televised Redemption: Black Religious Media and Racial Empowerment. In addition to being an anthropologist, Rouse has produced, directed, and/or edited a number of documentaries.

Sharmila Rudrappa is Associate Professor of the University of Texas, Austin, and is a sociologist who specializes in gender and immigration. She is the author of Ethnic Routes to Becoming American: Indian Immigrants and the Cultures of Citizenship.

Dinela Rushani is a doctoral student in epidemiology at McGill University, where she works on the methodology for causal inference and its application in clinical epidemiology.

Maya Sen is Associate Professor at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, where she carries out research in statistical methods, law, political economy, and race and ethnic politics.

Shirley Sun is Associate Professor of Sociology at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, where she studies family, population, and genomic science and medicine in global contexts through the concept of citizenship.

Kazuko Suzuki is Associate Professor of Sociology at Texas A&M University and the author of Divided Fates: The State, Race, and Korean Immigrants' Adaptation in Japan and the United States, winner of the 2017 Book Award on Asia/Transnational from the Asia and Asian American Section of the American Sociological Association.

Diego A. von Vacano is Associate Professor of Political Science at Texas A&M University and the author of The Color of Citizenship: Race, Modernity and Latin American/Hispanic Political Thought and The Art of Power: Machiavelli, Nietzsche and the Making of Aesthetic Political Theory.

""What becomes clear from reading the chapters in this volume is just how important it is to employ a social constructivist lens to view the new narratives surrounding genomic science. So while the editors of Reconsidering Race maintain that the social sciences would do better to adapt their frameworks to encompass knowledge learned from genomics, the many rich contributions to this volume actually show that the hard sciences could stand to learn something from the social sciences." - Perspectives on Politics"

""[This] volume delivers quite effectively on its promise to broaden the conversation about race and science beyond Euro-American bordersâa true strength of the collection." - American Journal of Human Biology"

""When social scientists and humanists fail to engage the discourses of the sciences, both scientists and the general public are left without the broader context of meaning that we all need in order to understand the stakes of urgent medical questions or of revelations about the human genome and what these might portend for our personal and shared futures. This collection of essays represents the promise of meaningful colloquy across the disciplines, bringing together some of our most gifted scholars to think about new ways to place science and the humanities in conversation, and to expand and complicate our understanding of race on both an historical and global scale."- Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Harvard University, from the preface"

""Reconsidering Race is a thoughtful and illuminating collection of essays that should be required reading for students and teachers alike. In this engaging volume, leading scholars in the social sciences, humanities, and biology address how genetics are reconfiguring our notions of relatedness and difference and reshaping the meaning of race. They show what's at stake are not only claims about who we are but also the paths we may take for addressing the continuing problems of racial or ethnic inequalities."-Catherine Lee, author of Fictive Kinship"

""This estimable volume productively interrupts some of our most dearly-held convictions about the relationship between race and genetics, taking the genomics turn as an opportunity to rigorously reexamine and adapt existing social science paradigms."-Alondra Nelson, author of The Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation After the Genome"