Genetics and Race:
Current Research and Societal Impact

Event Ideas

The following is a list of resources that may be used for chapter meetings and events. Ideas range from book clubs to movie nights and from roundtable discussions to large events.

Special Event

Movies

• Bloodlines: Technology Hits Home

• Gattaca

• Race—The Power of an Illusion

• X-Men

• The Hulk
  

Suggested Speakers

• Dr. Mildred K. Cho
  Senior Research Scholar
  Associate Director
  Center for Biomedical Ethics
  Stanford University

• Dr. Francis S. Collins
  Director
  National Human Genome Research Institute

• Dr. Troy Duster
  Professor, Sociology
  New York University
  Chancellor's Professor, Department of Sociology
  University of California, Berkeley

• Dr. Joseph Graves
  Professor of Evolutionary Biology

• Dr. Mary-Claire King
  Professor of Medicine and Genetics
  University of Washington

• Dr. Noah Rosenberg
  Research Scientist, Program in Molecular and Computational Biology
  University of Southern California

• Dr. J. Craig Venter
  President
  Center for the Advancement of Genomics
  

Websites

• Council for Responsible Genetics
  http://www.gene-watch.org/

• Department of Energy Human Genome Project
  http://www.ornl.gov/TechResources/Human_Genome/

• Genetic Engineering Organization
  http://www.geneticengineering.org/

• Human Genome Research
  http://www.science.doe.gov/ober/hug_top.html

• National Human Genome Research Institute
  www.genome.gov

• Nova
  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/first/race.html

• Office of Minority Health
  http://www.omhrc.gov/

• Palomar College - Department of Anthropology
  http://anthro.palomar.edu/ethnicity/ethnic_1.htm

• Race, HealthCare and the Law
  http://academic.udayton.edu/health/

• University of Washington Department of Genome Sciences
  http://www.gs.washington.edu/
  

Books and Publications

• Code of Codes: Scientific and Social Issues in the Human Genome Project edited by Daniel J. Kevles

• Ethical Challenges as We Approach the End of the Human Genome Project edited by Darryl R.J. Macer, PhD

• Eugenics and Public Health in American History by MS Pernick

• Human Diversity by Richard C. Lewontin

• In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity by D.J. Kevles

• Intelligence, Race, and Genetics: Conversations with Arthur R. Jensen by Frank Miele

• Man's Most Dangerous Myth: The Fallacy of Race by Ashley Montagu.

• Mapping Human History: Discovering the Past through Our Genes by Steve Olson

• Race, Evolution, and Behavior: A Life History Perspective by J. Philippe Rushton

• The Concept of "Race" in Natural and Social Science edited by E. Nathaniel Gates

• The Emperor's New Clothes: Biological Theories of Race at the Millennium by Joseph L. Graves, Jr.

• The Great Human Diasporas: The History of Diversity and Evolution by Luigi Cavalli Sforza

• The Human Genome Project and Minority Communities: Ethical, Social, and Political Dilemmas edited by Raymond A. Zilinskas and Peter J. Balint.

• The Legacy of Malthus: The Social Costs of the New Scientific Racism by Allan Chase

• Why Race Matters by Michael Levin
  

Articles

• The Reality of Race: There's hardly any difference in the DNA of human races. That doesn't mean, argues sociologist Troy Duster, that genomics research can ignore the concept by Sally Lehrman (Scientific American February 2003)

• For Sale: A DNA Test to Measure Racial Mix by Nicholas Wade (New York Times October 1, 2002)

• Genetics and Race: Researchers explore why rates of diseases vary from one population to another by Byron Spice (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette May 7, 2002)

• Race, ethnicity, and health: can genetics explain disparities? by Lundy Braun (Perspectives on Biology and Medicine Spring 2002)

• Race and the Clinic: Good Science? Human genome findings practically erase race as a biological factor by Ricki Lewis (The Scientist February 18, 2002)

• The Genetic Archaeology of Race by Steve Olson (The Atlantic Monthly April 2001)

• Debate held to talk about race relations by Naeun Rim (The Emory Wheel October 13, 2000)

• American Anthropological Association Statement on "Race" (May 17, 1998)