Where to Begin
RaceSci has compiled a selective bibliography of works to orient students
towards thinking critically about the intersection of race and science.
The first list focuses on works that address the
history of race as a concept and/or processes of racialization. The
second list contains texts that critically discuss both the science
behind race and contemporary developments in racial science.
History & Critical Race Studies
Michael Banton, The Idiom of Race in Theories of Race and Racism: A
Reader, Les Black and John Aolomos, eds., (New York: Routledge, 2000):
51-63.
Ann Laura Stoler, "Racial Histories and Their Regimes of Truth" Political
Power and Social Theory v. 11 (1997) 183-206
Barbara Jeanne Fields, "Slavery, Race and Ideology in the United
States of America," New Left Review I/181, (May-June 1990).
http://www.newleftreview.net
Michel Omi & Howard Winant, Racial Formation in the United States:
From the 1960s to the 1980s (NY, New York: Routledge, 1986)
Racial Science and/or Genetics
SSRC form "Is Race Real?" http://raceandgenomics.ssrc.org/
Troy Duster, "Race and Reification in Science," in Science, 18 February
2005 307:1050-1051.
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Stepan, Nancy. "Race and Gender: the Role of Analogy in Science." In The
"Racial" Economy of Science: Toward a Democratic Future. Edited by Sandra
Harding. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993, pp. 359-376.
Joseph L. Graves, jr. The Emperor's New Clothes: Biological Theories
of Race at the Millennium (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University
Press, 2002).
Jenny Reardon, Race to the Finish: Identity and Governance in an Age
of Genomics (Princeton University Press, 2004).