| Autor: |
Ifekwunigwe JO; Center on Genomics, Race, Identity, Difference (GRID), Duke University, Durham, NC 27708; joi@duke.edu., Wagner JK; Center for Translational Bioethics and Health Care Policy, Geisinger Health System, Danville, PA 17822; jennifer.kristin.wagner@gmail.com., Yu JH; Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98105; joonhoyu@uw.edu., Harrell TM; Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA 98109; tharrell@scharp.org., Bamshad MJ; Departments of Pediatrics and Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98105; mbamshad@uw.edu., Royal CD; Departments of African and African American Studies, Biology and Community and Family Medicine and Center on Genomics, Race, Identity, Difference Duke University, Durham, NC 27708; charmaine.royal@duke.edu. |
| Abstrakt: |
This article assesses anthropological thinking about the race concept and its applications. Drawn from a broader national survey of geneticists' and anthropologists' views on race, in this analysis, we provide a qualitative account of anthropologists' perspectives. We delve deeper than simply asserting that "race is a social construct." Instead, we explore the differential ways in which anthropologists describe and interpret how race is constructed. Utilizing the heuristic of constructors, shifters , and reconcilers , we also illustrate the ways in which anthropologists conceptualize their interpretations of race along a broad spectrum as well as what these differential approaches reveal about the ideological and biological consequences of socially defined races, such as racism in general and racialized health disparities in particular. [ race concept, social construction, racism, health disparities ]. |
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