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Johnny E. Williams is associate professor of sociology at Trinity College.
Foreword, Joseph L. Graves, Jr.
Chapter 1: Genomics’ ‘Race’ Legacy
Chapter 2: Socialized Interpreters
Chapter 3: Racialized Culture—Genomic Nexus
Chapter 4: Racialization via Assertions of Objectivity and Heuristic Practice
Chapter 5: ‘Bad Science’ Discourse as Covering for Racial Thinking
Chapter 6: Reorienting Genomics
Williams’ Decoding Racial Ideology excavates and reveals the many ways in which genomic studies of racial differences are typically grounded in deep-seated common lay assumptions about race. In so doing, he contributes to a growing body of literature that documents how, in this era of “Post-Genomics”, lay racial thinking persists and remains embedded in much human genetic research.
— Troy Duster, Emeritus Chancellor's Professor, University of California, Berkeley
Decoding Racial Ideology in Genomics makes a major contribution to the study of race and ethnicity, knowledge, health and medicine, and the social construction of whiteness.
— American Journal of Sociology
Williams’ Decoding Racial Ideology excavates and reveals the many ways in which genomic studies of racial differences are typically grounded in deep-seated common lay assumptions about race. In so doing, he contributes to a growing body of literature that documents how, in this era of “Post-Genomics”, lay racial thinking persists and remains embedded in much human genetic research.
— Troy Duster, Emeritus Chancellor's Professor, University of California, Berkeley