{"product_id":"ordering-the-human-eram-alam-9780231207331","title":"Ordering the Human: The Global Spread of Racial Science","description":"\u003cp\u003eModern science and ideas of race have long been entangled, sharing notions of order, classification, and hierarchy. \u003ci\u003eOrdering the Human\u003c\/i\u003e presents cutting-edge interdisciplinary scholarship that examines the racialization of science in various global contexts, illuminating how racial logics have been deployed to classify, marginalize, and oppress. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThese wide-ranging essays--written by experts in genetics, forensics, public health, history, sociology, and anthropology--investigate the influence of racial concepts in scientific knowledge production across regions and eras. Chapters excavate the mechanisms by which racialized science serves projects of power and domination, and they explore different forms of resistance. Topics range from skull collecting by eighteenth-century German and Dutch scientists to the use of biology to reinforce notions of purity in present-day South Korea and Brazil. The authors investigate the colonial legacies of the pathologization of weight for the Maori people, the scientific presumption of coronary artery disease risk among South Asians, and the role of racial categories in COVID-19 statistics and responses, among many other cases. Tracing the pernicious consequences of the racialization of science, \u003ci\u003eOrdering the Human\u003c\/i\u003e shines a light on how the naturalization of racial categories continues to shape health and inequality today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Eram Alam\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0231207336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780231207331\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Columbia University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/09\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.14lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.79d","brand":"Eram Alam","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44756437074175,"sku":"9780231207331","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f295465f-31f2-4218-a47d-7cbb39eca28c.jpg?v=1706592988","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/ordering-the-human-eram-alam-9780231207331","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}