ISBN:
9780822373070
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (ix, 331 Seiten)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Wade, Peter, 1957- Degrees of mixture, degrees of freedom : genomics, multiculturalism, and race in Latin America
DDC:
305.80098
Keywords:
Gesellschaft
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Politik
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Mestizaje
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Race Social aspects
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Race Political aspects
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Human population genetics
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Multiculturalism
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Mestizisierung
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Multikulturelle Gesellschaft
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Lateinamerika
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Lateinamerika
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Mestizaje
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Race / Social aspects / Latin America
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Race / Political aspects / Latin America
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Human population genetics
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Multiculturalism / Latin America
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Latin America / Race relations
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Multiculturalism
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Race / Political aspects
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Race relations
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Race / Social aspects
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Latin America
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Lateinamerika
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Mestizisierung
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Multikulturelle Gesellschaft
Abstract:
Race mixture, or mestizaje, has played a critical role in the history, culture, and politics of Latin America. Peter Wade draws on a multidisciplinary research study in Mexico, Brazil, and Colombia. He shows how Latin American elites and outside observers have emphasized mixture's democratizing potential, depicting it as a useful resource for addressing problems of racism (claiming that race mixture undoes racial difference and hierarchy), while Latin American scientists participate in this narrative with claims that genetic studies of mestizos can help isolate genetic contributors to diabetes and obesity and improve health for all. Wade argues that, in the process, genomics produces biologized versions of racialized difference within the nation and the region, but a comparative approach nuances the simple idea that highly racialized societies give rise to highly racialized genomics. Wade examines the tensions between mixture and purity, and between equality and hierarchy in liberal political orders, exploring how ideas and scientific data about genetic mixture are produced and circulate through complex networks
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