Revisiting Race in a Genomic Age Edited by Barbara A. Koenig, Sandra Soo-Jin Lee, and Sarah S. Richardson (2008), Rutgers University Press Robert Schwartz 1 Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 1 Correspondence: E-mail: rschwartz@nejm.org Interviewer: How do you define race? Interviewee [Latino post doctoral student in pharmacogenetics]: Wow [pause] That’s a good one …(1) ⇓ The election of Barack Obama to the presidency was a turning point in American history because never before has the Oval Office been occupied by a black man. This historic event exemplifies the problem of racial assignment because his mother (born in Wichita, Kansas) was white, and his father (from Kanyadhiang Village, Kansas) was black. Even though half of Barack Obama’s genome is from a white mother, and half is from a black father, he is nevertheless “our first black president.” This sort of designation is what Feldman and Lewontin call, in their chapter in Revisiting Race in a Genomic Age , “asymmetrical nominal assignment of race such that any detectable African ancestry makes a person ‘black’ or African American.” The example of the President of the United States shows us the dilemma of race: there is social value in
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Revisiting Race in a Genomic Age Edited by Barbara A. Koenig, Sandra Soo-Jin Lee, and Sarah S. Richardson (2008), Rutgers University Press
Schwartz, Robert
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Fed of American Socs for Experimental Biology – Nov 1, 2009
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