Repackaging Racism: The Role of Sickle Cell Anemia in the Construction of Race as Biological
Year: 2014
Type: article
Abstract: Due to sickle cell anemia's position as a genetic disease and its association with a racial category, it has remained an active player in the repackaging of race through modern genetics.In recent years, genetic sequencing has become more prominent as the ultimate definer of human life, yet the ways in which we continue to incorporate and enforce past racial categories is where a new form of the problem lies.Throughout this thesis I hope to deconstruct these current notions of race as biological by using the disease I originally found to be the most convincing example to the contrary, sickle cell anemia.
Author: Margaret Kwateng
Institution: Vassar College
Language: English
Topic: Race, Genetics, and Society
Subfield: Anthropology
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Reduced inequalities
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1264923927