The Assisted Reproduction of Race

Camisha A. Russell (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

200 Seiten

2018
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
978-0-253-03590-5 (ISBN)

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The use of assisted reproductive technologies (ART)—in vitro fertilization, artificial insemination, and gestational surrogacy—challenges contemporary notions of what it means to be parents or families. Camisha A. Russell argues that these technologies also bring new insight to ideas and questions surrounding race. In her view, if we think of ART as medical technology, we might be surprised by the importance that people using them put on race, especially given the scientific evidence that race lacks a genetic basis. However if we think of ART as an intervention to make babies and parents, as technologies of kinship, the importance placed on race may not be so surprising after all. Thinking about race in terms of technology brings together the common academic insight that race is a social construction with the equally important insight that race is a political tool which has been and continues to be used in different contexts for a variety of ends, including social cohesion, economic exploitation, and political mastery. As Russell explores ideas about race through their role in ART, she brings together social and political views to shift debates from what race is to what race does, how it is used, and what effects it has had in the world.

Camisha Russell is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oregon.

Acknowledgements
Introduction: From What Race Is to What Race Does
Overview
Assisted Reproductive Technologies
Critical Philosophy of Race
The Debate over the "Reality" of Race
Nature, Culture, or Politics?
Description of Chapters
1. Reproductive Technologies are Not "Post-Racial"
Beyond the "Bioethical" Approach
Whose Progress?
The "Problem" of Infertility
Reproducing Inequalities
Race and the "Natural"
Conclusion
2. Race Isn't Just Made, It's Used
Race as Technology
Heidegger's Essence of Technology
Foucault's Focus on Technologies
Conclusion
3. A Technological History of Race
Backdoor to Eugenics?
The Technological Science of Race
Kant's Scientific Concept of Race
Race as Envisioned and Purposive
Race as Producible and Produced
Race, Heredity, and Eugenics Proper
A Note on Heidegger
Conclusion
4. "I Just Want Children Like Me"
Putting Race to Work
Race, Blood, and American Kinship
Denying Common Origins—The American Polygenists
Discouraging Intimacy and Disallowing Kinship
Separation After Slavery
The "Blood" in our "Genes"
Conclusion
5. Race and Choice in the Era of Liberal Eugenics
The Neo-Liberal Regime of Truth
Technologies of the Self
The Personal and the Political in Assisted Reproduction
Technologies of the Self as Technologies of Race
Conclusion
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	13.12.2018
Verlagsort	Bloomington, IN
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	318 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
ISBN-10	0-253-03590-2 / 0253035902
ISBN-13	978-0-253-03590-5 / 9780253035905
Zustand	Neuware