Ordering the Human

Eram Alam is an assistant professor in the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University.Dorothy Roberts is the George A. Weiss University Professor of Law & Sociology, Raymond Pace & Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights, professor of Africana studies, and director of the Program on Race, Science, and Society at the University of Pennsylvania.Natalie Shibley is a visiting assistant professor of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at Northeastern University.

Ordering the Human is a remarkable gathering of essays that are at once individually compelling and collectively vital. This urgent, wide-ranging book highlights how racism intersects with science and medicine worldwide to shape our understandings of a wide range of contemporary health issues, to the detriment of us all. This excellent book is required reading for all students, practitioners, and people who desire a more healthy, equitable world

• PrefaceIntroduction, by Eram AlamPart I: Stability and Circulation1. Origins of Races, Organs of Intellect: Polygenism, Political Order, and the Enlightenment Construction of Cranial Race Science, by Paul Wolff Mitchell2. Unbecoming Subjects: Psychiatry, Race, and Disordering the Human, by Eric Reinhart3. Locating the Child in Racial Science: Scenes from Latin America, by Sebastián Gil-Riaño and Julia E. Rodriguez4. Race and Sameness: On Ordering the Human and the Specificities of Us-ness and Other-ness, by Amade Aouatef M’charek5. The Racial Calculus: Security and Policy During the COVID-19 Global Pandemic, by Denise Ferreira da SilvaPart II: Purity and Mixture6. Biometric Hybridity: Anglo-Indians, Race, and National Science in India, 1916–1969, by Projit Bihari Mukharji7. “Multicultural Genes in Our Blood”? Genetic Governance and Biocultural Purity in South Korea, by Jaehwan Hyun8. The Dilemmas of Racial Classification in Brazil: Reflections on Two Contemporary Case Studies, by João Luiz Bastos and Ricardo Ventura SantosPart III: Past and Promise9. Facing the Past: Human Skulls, Facial Reconstruction, and National Identity in the Middle East, by Elise K. Burton10. Racism and Weightism in the Māori Community: From Weight-Focused Health to Indigenous Solutions, by Isaac Warbrick11. After Race Classification: Grappling with South African Indigenous DNA in Practice, by Noah Tamarkin12. The South Asian Heart Disease Paradox: History, Epidemiology, and Contested Narratives of Susceptibility, by Alyssa Botelho and David S. Jones13. Roots of Coincidence: The Racial Politics of COVID-19, by Banu SubramaniamList of ContributorsIndex