SHUM 6670 - Race and Justice After DNA

(crosslisted) ANTHR 7470, ASRC 6670, STS 6670

Spring. 4 credits. Student option grading.

Enrollment limited to: graduate students. Co-meets with ANTHR 4470/ASRC 4670/SHUM 4670/STS 4670.

N. Tamarkin.

DNA has become a pervasive feature of our lives, and a critical object through which race and justice are imagined and contested. DNA shapes how we think about ancestral pasts, medical futures, identity, citizenship and belonging, and standards of evidence. This course considers how each of these concepts articulates with DNA, investigating each in turn as a form of genetic afterlives that reconfigures race, justice, and the relationship between them. For longer description and instructor bio, visit the Society for the Humanities website.