Kim TallBear
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816665853
- eISBN:
- 9781452946511
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816665853.003.0004
- Subject:
- Sociology, Race and Ethnicity
Chapter 3 is a virtual ethnography of an online genetic genealogy listserv community of predominantly white-identified individuals. This chapter analyzes the politics of race on-list, including how ...
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Chapter 3 is a virtual ethnography of an online genetic genealogy listserv community of predominantly white-identified individuals. This chapter analyzes the politics of race on-list, including how Native Americans are racialized differently in relation to whiteness than are blacks, or African-Americans. This shapes claims that white folks make about having Native American ancestry.Less
Chapter 3 is a virtual ethnography of an online genetic genealogy listserv community of predominantly white-identified individuals. This chapter analyzes the politics of race on-list, including how Native Americans are racialized differently in relation to whiteness than are blacks, or African-Americans. This shapes claims that white folks make about having Native American ancestry.
Kim TallBear
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816665853
- eISBN:
- 9781452946511
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816665853.003.0003
- Subject:
- Sociology, Race and Ethnicity
Chapter 2, using a sample of six companies, looks at how concepts of race inform the Native American genetic testing industry. It deconstructs their discourses, images, product technical aspects, and ...
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Chapter 2, using a sample of six companies, looks at how concepts of race inform the Native American genetic testing industry. It deconstructs their discourses, images, product technical aspects, and claims about the applicability of genetic tests to both Native American racial identity and for purposes of tribal enrollment.Less
Chapter 2, using a sample of six companies, looks at how concepts of race inform the Native American genetic testing industry. It deconstructs their discourses, images, product technical aspects, and claims about the applicability of genetic tests to both Native American racial identity and for purposes of tribal enrollment.
Joel T. Dudley
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- December 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199644483
- eISBN:
- 9780191774577
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199644483.003.0005
- Subject:
- Biology, Evolutionary Biology / Genetics
This chapter explores the genetics of human ancestry. Personal genomics's most intriguing and introspective aspect is the fact that each individual's genome contains the genetic footprints of ...
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This chapter explores the genetics of human ancestry. Personal genomics's most intriguing and introspective aspect is the fact that each individual's genome contains the genetic footprints of ancestral lineage, going all the way to the roots of humankind itself. One of the challenges, then, that ‘genetic genealogy’ faces is the fact that genomes have a tendency to accumulate random mutational ‘noise’ and experience regular shuffling due to recombination — or the combining of the genetic material from one's mother and father. The chapter further discusses human ancestry by looking at the history of human migration patterns, particularly when modern humans migrated out of southern or eastern Africa some 200,000 years ago. The chapter reviews several global genetic mapping projects, such as HapMap, that aim to measure the genetic makeup of individuals from diverse ethnic and geographic populations. It is through this global ancestry analysis that one can finally pinpoint one's average ancestry on a world map.Less
This chapter explores the genetics of human ancestry. Personal genomics's most intriguing and introspective aspect is the fact that each individual's genome contains the genetic footprints of ancestral lineage, going all the way to the roots of humankind itself. One of the challenges, then, that ‘genetic genealogy’ faces is the fact that genomes have a tendency to accumulate random mutational ‘noise’ and experience regular shuffling due to recombination — or the combining of the genetic material from one's mother and father. The chapter further discusses human ancestry by looking at the history of human migration patterns, particularly when modern humans migrated out of southern or eastern Africa some 200,000 years ago. The chapter reviews several global genetic mapping projects, such as HapMap, that aim to measure the genetic makeup of individuals from diverse ethnic and geographic populations. It is through this global ancestry analysis that one can finally pinpoint one's average ancestry on a world map.
Kim TallBear
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816665853
- eISBN:
- 9781452946511
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816665853.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Race and Ethnicity
Native American DNA is not simply found in bodies, both living and dead, and in hi-tech laboratories. Drawing from history, genome science, ethnography, textual and policy analysis, TallBear shows ...
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Native American DNA is not simply found in bodies, both living and dead, and in hi-tech laboratories. Drawing from history, genome science, ethnography, textual and policy analysis, TallBear shows how the scientific object is forged through social and material processes. Scientists like all of us yearn for knowledge of human origins. Genealogists buy genetic ancestry tests hoping to get proof of an Indian in the family tree. U.S. tribes use parentage tests to confer membership. Vestiges of 19th-century race science mix with 20th-century multi-culturalism and molecular knowledge to re-script Native American identities in the 21st century. A transition is afoot from blood- to gene-talk. The risk is that Native American sovereignty and claims to land and resources based in law, sometimes implemented through old-fashioned notions of blood, will be undermined. Many scholars critique Native American blood as a racist idea. But TallBear argues that the turn to new genetic identities, perceived by many as scientifically robust, is even more risky. She argues for indigenous peoples to govern and engage proactively with genome research in order to protect their rights.Less
Native American DNA is not simply found in bodies, both living and dead, and in hi-tech laboratories. Drawing from history, genome science, ethnography, textual and policy analysis, TallBear shows how the scientific object is forged through social and material processes. Scientists like all of us yearn for knowledge of human origins. Genealogists buy genetic ancestry tests hoping to get proof of an Indian in the family tree. U.S. tribes use parentage tests to confer membership. Vestiges of 19th-century race science mix with 20th-century multi-culturalism and molecular knowledge to re-script Native American identities in the 21st century. A transition is afoot from blood- to gene-talk. The risk is that Native American sovereignty and claims to land and resources based in law, sometimes implemented through old-fashioned notions of blood, will be undermined. Many scholars critique Native American blood as a racist idea. But TallBear argues that the turn to new genetic identities, perceived by many as scientifically robust, is even more risky. She argues for indigenous peoples to govern and engage proactively with genome research in order to protect their rights.
Kim TallBear
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816665853
- eISBN:
- 9781452946511
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816665853.003.0002
- Subject:
- Sociology, Race and Ethnicity
Chapter 1 defines “Native American DNA,” explains genetic ancestry tests, and defines the “DNA profile” used in tribal enrollment. It traces biological “race” as rooted in 19th-century science and ...
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Chapter 1 defines “Native American DNA,” explains genetic ancestry tests, and defines the “DNA profile” used in tribal enrollment. It traces biological “race” as rooted in 19th-century science and “Indian blood” rooted in 19th-century policy, arguing that DNA and blood should not be conflated in relation to Native American identity.Less
Chapter 1 defines “Native American DNA,” explains genetic ancestry tests, and defines the “DNA profile” used in tribal enrollment. It traces biological “race” as rooted in 19th-century science and “Indian blood” rooted in 19th-century policy, arguing that DNA and blood should not be conflated in relation to Native American identity.
Kim TallBear
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816665853
- eISBN:
- 9781452946511
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816665853.003.0005
- Subject:
- Sociology, Race and Ethnicity
Chapter 4 describes National Geographic’s Genographic Project and the politics of race and indigeneity in that global human genetic diversity research project. It deconstructs Genographic discourses, ...
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Chapter 4 describes National Geographic’s Genographic Project and the politics of race and indigeneity in that global human genetic diversity research project. It deconstructs Genographic discourses, images, and video in order to highlight how indigeneity gets articulated as a genetic condition by this project in ways that undermine social and political definitions of indigeneity, which are crucial for indigenous peoples’ survival.Less
Chapter 4 describes National Geographic’s Genographic Project and the politics of race and indigeneity in that global human genetic diversity research project. It deconstructs Genographic discourses, images, and video in order to highlight how indigeneity gets articulated as a genetic condition by this project in ways that undermine social and political definitions of indigeneity, which are crucial for indigenous peoples’ survival.
Kim TallBear
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816665853
- eISBN:
- 9781452946511
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816665853.003.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Race and Ethnicity
The introduction defines “Native American DNA,” rooting it in colonial histories of who encounters and who gets encountered, who studies and who gets studied. It introduces key science studies, ...
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The introduction defines “Native American DNA,” rooting it in colonial histories of who encounters and who gets encountered, who studies and who gets studied. It introduces key science studies, indigenous studies, feminist, and anthropological theories and ethical frameworks that ground this book and guide its critiques of indigenous genome research.Less
The introduction defines “Native American DNA,” rooting it in colonial histories of who encounters and who gets encountered, who studies and who gets studied. It introduces key science studies, indigenous studies, feminist, and anthropological theories and ethical frameworks that ground this book and guide its critiques of indigenous genome research.
Kim TallBear
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816665853
- eISBN:
- 9781452946511
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816665853.003.0006
- Subject:
- Sociology, Race and Ethnicity
The conclusion highlights increasing indigenous influence over genome research in ways that enhances indigenous sovereignty and livelihoods. It looks forward to additional innovations whereby ...
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The conclusion highlights increasing indigenous influence over genome research in ways that enhances indigenous sovereignty and livelihoods. It looks forward to additional innovations whereby indigenous ontologies influence how science gets done and more indigenous scientists get trained who might help re-shape genetic science fields to be more multi-cultural, less hierarchical, and more democratic.Less
The conclusion highlights increasing indigenous influence over genome research in ways that enhances indigenous sovereignty and livelihoods. It looks forward to additional innovations whereby indigenous ontologies influence how science gets done and more indigenous scientists get trained who might help re-shape genetic science fields to be more multi-cultural, less hierarchical, and more democratic.
