When is ‘race’ a race? 1946–2003

Gissis, Snait B.

doi:10.1016/j.shpsc.2008.09.006

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“…Second, strong continuities can also be the product of structurally similar responses. For example, consider that not only Austrian and German but also Israeli public discourse tends to prefer eliminativist interpretations of race (Gissis 2008) due to structurally similar reflections on role of racial ideology in the Holocaust. Furthermore, consider appeals to black culture in black nationalism in the United States and in black consciousness in South Africa.…”

Section: A Framework For Relating Racial Ontologiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

How race travels: relating local and global ontologies of race

Ludwig

2018

Philos Stud

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This article develops a framework for addressing racial ontologies in transnational perspective. In contrast to simple contextualist accounts, it is argued that a globally engaged metaphysics of race needs to address transnational continuities of racial ontologies. In contrast to unificationist accounts that aim for one globally unified ontology, it is argued that questions about the nature and reality of race do not always have the same answers across national contexts. In order address racial ontologies in global perspective, the article develops a framework that accounts for both continuities and discontinuities by looking beyond the referents of narrowly defined core concepts. By shifting the focus from narrow concepts to richer conceptions of race, racial ontologies become comparable through globally related but nonetheless distinct mappings between conceptions and property relations. The article concludes by showing how this framework can generate novel insights in case studies from Asia, Europe, and Latin America.

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Section: A Framework For Relating Racial Ontologiesmentioning

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How race travels: relating local and global ontologies of race

Ludwig

2018

Philos Stud

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“…Scientific practices involved in research on race and ethnicity in health and genomics have been shown to be situated in and shaped by various specific national, sociopolitical, and historical contexts (Hinterberger, 2012;Epstein, 2010;Tsai, 2010;Olarte Sierra and Díaz Del Castillo Herná ndez, 2014). These national, sociopolitical, and historical contexts shape the ways in which ethnicity and race are enacted in research by prescribing, for example, the (official) categories which must be used in research -a process referred to as ''categorical alignment'' (Epstein, 2007) -or by defining which groups are and are not considered to be ethnic and racial minorities (Gissis, 2008;Helberg-Proctor et al, 2016, 2017Proctor et al, 2011). Scientific practices involved in research on race and ethnicity in health and genomics have also been shown to be situated in the specific dynamics of a ''research situation'' (Shim et al, 2014), whereby dynamics unique to a specific research situation, such as the availability of data and sufficient sample sizes per ethnic and or racial group and the specific aims of a project, shape the manner in which ethnicity and race are enacted (Shim et al, 2014;Helberg-Proctor et al, 2016).…”

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The multiplicity and situationality of enacting ‘ethnicity’ in Dutch health research articles

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Previous research has problematised the diversity of conceptualisations and operationalisations of ethnicity within health research and the field of Ethnicity and Health. In this article, we explore how practices in health research and the field of Ethnicity and Health themselves contribute to the enactment of different versions of ethnicity. Using a qualitative content analysis of contemporary peer-reviewed Dutch biomedical and health research, we identified various dynamics in research practices and the research situation, which are relevant to understanding the enactment of multiple versions of ethnicity and specific ethnic and racial categories in health research in the Netherlands. Specifically, we discuss the production of academic publications and the manner in which researchers must establish the premises for ethnicity-specific health research; the organisation and ethnic and racial labelling of the data; and the discussion of new research findings in comparison with previous ethnicity-specific research. Ultimately, our analysis illustrates that, in health research and publications, ethnicity and its relation to health are not simply discovered or found; rather we discuss how the manner in which ethnicity and specific categories of ethnicity are enacted is contingent upon these everyday dynamics of research practices and the specific research situation in which research takes place.

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“…Finally, the resurgence of "race" in biomedical research suggests that many researchers use "race" in ways that match neither traditional subspecies nor ecotypes (cf. Root 2003;Torres and Kittles 2007;Gissis 2008). Unless we assume that classifications in all disciplines of the life sciences must be taxonomically relevant for biological systematics, the problem of multiple specifications of "race" reappears in our discussion of race scientific (cf.…”

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Against the New Metaphysics of Race

Ludwig¹

2015

Philos. of Sci.

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The aim of this article is to develop an argument against metaphysical debates about the existence of human races. I argue that the ontology of race is underdetermined by both empirical and nonempirical evidence owing to a plurality of equally permissible candidate meanings of "race." Furthermore, I argue that this underdetermination leads to a deflationist diagnosis according to which disputes about the existence of human races are nonsubstantive verbal disputes. While this diagnosis resembles general deflationist strategies in contemporary metaphysics, I show that my argument does not presuppose controversial metametaphysical assumptions.

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When is ‘race’ a race? 1946–2003

Cited by 16 publications

References 52 publications

How race travels: relating local and global ontologies of race

How race travels: relating local and global ontologies of race

The multiplicity and situationality of enacting ‘ethnicity’ in Dutch health research articles

Against the New Metaphysics of Race

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