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Progressive Science, Racial Concepts : American Race and Ethnic Classifications, Technologies, and Discourse of Scientific Racism
Kim, Sujin (2022) Progressive Science, Racial Concepts : American Race and Ethnic Classifications, Technologies, and Discourse of Scientific Racism.
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| Abstract: | When your cryobank offers a selection of sperm donors, how important are race and ethnic information to you from the rest? And do you think it is discriminatory if vials containing gametes are colour-coded to prevent unwanted insemination? When ethnic and racial groups are included in the research, how important is the method of reporting their race and ethnicity? Addressing these questions, the early 2000s discussants confronted disputes concerning race concepts and how they might be used and redesigned. The central paradox of race was that medicine should caution against discriminatory views, while medicine should disclose how racism plays out in the disease and health of racial and ethnic minorities. The thesis will explore scientific nonracism in the focus of American discourses on race concepts of the early 2000s, and more specifically how scientists and technologies played a role in articulating non-racism. The focus helps us answer a more important question. Can we agree on what nonracism means, and apply the moral framework to the scientific practices? The project’s selected accounts of nonracist and progressive uses of race concepts highlight to us the importance of denaturalising the role of technologies in controversies and their role in political discourses of racism. |
| Item Type: | Essay (Master) |
| Faculty: | BMS: Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences |
| Subject: | 08 philosophy, 15 history, 44 medicine, 89 political science |
| Programme: | Philosophy of Science, Technology and Society MSc (60024) |
| Link to this item: | https://purl.utwente.nl/essays/92981 |
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