"The Fixity of Whiteness": Genetic Admixture and the Legacy of the One-Drop Rule

IF 1.3 Q2 ETHNIC STUDIES

Critical Philosophy of Race Pub Date : 2018-07-11 DOI:10.5325/critphilrace.6.2.0239

J. Liz

引用次数: 12

Abstract

Abstract:There has been increasing attention given to the way in which racial genetic clusters are constructed within population genetics. In particular, some scholars have argued that the conception of "whiteness" presupposed is such analyses is inherently problematic. In light of these ongoing discussions, this article aims to further clarify and develop this implicit relationship between whiteness, purity and contemporary genetics by offering a Foucauldian critique of the discourse of race within these genetic admixture studies. The goals of this article, then, are twofold: first, to unearth some of the presuppositions operative in this genetics discourse that make possible a biological conception of race; and second, to examine some of the social and historical origins of those presuppositions. To this end, this article provides a brief genealogy of racial purity beginning with its formal legal codification in the one-drop rule.

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“白色的固定性”：遗传混合与一滴规则的遗产

摘要:在群体遗传学中，种族遗传集群的构建方式越来越受到人们的关注。特别是，一些学者认为，这种分析所预设的“白度”概念本身就存在问题。鉴于这些正在进行的讨论，本文旨在通过在这些基因混合研究中对种族话语进行福柯式的批评，进一步澄清和发展白色，纯度和当代遗传学之间的隐含关系。因此，本文的目标是双重的:首先，揭示遗传学话语中运作的一些前提，这些前提使种族的生物学概念成为可能;其次，考察这些预设的一些社会和历史渊源。为此，本文提供了一个简短的族谱，从它的正式法律编纂在一滴规则。

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Critical Philosophy of Race ETHNIC STUDIES-

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期刊介绍： The critical philosophy of race consists in the philosophical examination of issues raised by the concept of race, the practices and mechanisms of racialization, and the persistence of various forms of racism across the world. Critical philosophy of race is a critical enterprise in three respects: it opposes racism in all its forms; it rejects the pseudosciences of old-fashioned biological racialism; and it denies that anti-racism and anti-racialism summarily eliminate race as a meaningful category of analysis. Critical philosophy of race is a philosophical enterprise because of its engagement with traditional philosophical questions and in its readiness to engage critically some of the traditional answers.