Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

 

Introduction
Situating Problems of Knowledge

1.

Biological or Social: Allelic Variation and the Making of Race in Single Nucleotide Polymorphism–Based Research

2.

Genes and Disease on the U.S.-Mexico Border: The Science of State Formation in Diabetes Research

3.

Purity and Danger: When One Stands for Many

4.

Collaboration and Power: Processing Cultures and Culturing Data

5.

Recruiting Race: The Commodification of Mexicana/o Bodies from the U.S.-Mexico Border

6.

Bioethnic Conscription

 

Conclusion
Beyond Reductionism: Bioethnicity and the Genetics of Inequality

 

Epilogue

 

Glossary

 

Notes

 

Bibliography

 

Index