{"product_id":"the-assisted-reproduction-of-race-hardback-9780253035820","title":"The Assisted Reproduction of Race (Hardback) 9780253035820","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Assisted Reproduction of Race\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eCamisha A. Russell (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780253035820\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 6 December 2018\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e200 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.472 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"By exploring the role race plays in reproductive assisting technologies, philosopher Camisha Russell brilliantly reveals race itself as a form of technological reproduction. \u003ci\u003eThe Assisted Reproduction of Race\u003c\/i\u003e is a compelling critique of the way modern science and its technologies continue to remake and use race in a neoliberal era. Deeply engaged with a multidisciplinary array of scholars, Russell makes an essential contribution to critical philosophy of race, bioethics, and technoscience studies.\"—Dorothy Roberts, author of \u003ci\u003eKilling the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Camisha A. Russell makes a strong case that race has a history of practices, not just a history of ideas, and that eugenics is more central to these practices than we have assumed so far. I know of no other work that drives this point home as well as Russell's does, precisely thanks to her focus on assisted reproductive technologies.\"—Margret Grebowicz, author of \u003ci\u003eWhale Song\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Camisha Russell's impressive examination of assisted reproductive technologies considers an aggregate of practices that are dependent on the persistence of race as an organizing principle, even as the concept of race is fundamentally discredited. In demonstrating that discourses of race continually and clandestinely produce coherent frameworks for these and other social practices, she offers us crucial insights into why race and racism have proven to be so intransigent.\"—Angela Davis, author of \u003ci\u003eFreedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"An incisive use of bioethics, history of philosophy, and race theory to analyze a contemporary issue that is generally not understood as racialized—how the concept of race is conceived and utilized in assisted reproductive technology.\"—Jacqueline Scott, editor (with Judith Treas and Martin Richards) of \u003ci\u003eThe Wiley Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Families\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Russell gives us an innovative way to think about longstanding debates in bioethics. I encourage fellow bioethicists to give her approach serious attention. Her theory explains why it is not so easy to escape our history and why it is so important to make race a central focus (rather than an addendum) to many of these conversations.\"—\u003ci\u003eInternational Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Throughout the book, Russell emphasizes how race operates throughout the use of ART and the political and social consequences of this relationship. His text is incredibly clear and accessible, and he makes a very important argument at its core. The book will prove useful to anyone who teaches or studies the philosophy of race, philosophy of medicine, medical humanities, or bioethics. . . . Highly recommended.\"—\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe use of assisted reproductive technologies (ART)—in vitro fertilization, artificial insemination, and gestational surrogacy—challenges contemporary notions of what it means to be parents or families. Camisha A. Russell argues that these technologies also bring new insight to ideas and questions surrounding race. In her view, if we think of ART as medical technology, we might be surprised by the importance that people using them put on race, especially given the scientific evidence that race lacks a genetic basis. However if we think of ART as an intervention to make babies and parents, as technologies of kinship, the importance placed on race may not be so surprising after all. Thinking about race in terms of technology brings together the common academic insight that race is a social construction with the equally important insight that race is a political tool which has been and continues to be used in different contexts for a variety of ends, including social cohesion, economic exploitation, and political mastery. As Russell explores ideas about race through their role in ART, she brings together social and political views to shift debates from what race is to what race does, how it is used, and what effects it has had in the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: From What Race \u003ci\u003eIs\u003c\/i\u003e to What Race \u003ci\u003eDoes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Overview\u003cbr\u003e Assisted Reproductive Technologies\u003cbr\u003e Critical Philosophy of Race\u003cbr\u003e The Debate over the \"Reality\" of Race\u003cbr\u003e Nature, Culture, or Politics? \u003cbr\u003e Description of Chapters\u003cbr\u003e 1. Reproductive Technologies are Not \"Post-Racial\"\u003cbr\u003e Beyond the \"Bioethical\" Approach \u003cbr\u003e Whose Progress? \u003cbr\u003e The \"Problem\" of Infertility \u003cbr\u003e Reproducing Inequalities \u003cbr\u003e Race and the \"Natural\" \u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e 2. Race Isn't Just Made, It's Used \u003cbr\u003e Race as Technology \u003cbr\u003e Heidegger's Essence of Technology \u003cbr\u003e Foucault's Focus on Technologies \u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e 3. A Technological History of Race \u003cbr\u003e Backdoor to Eugenics? \u003cbr\u003e The Technological Science of Race \u003cbr\u003e Kant's Scientific Concept of Race \u003cbr\u003e Race as Envisioned and Purposive\u003cbr\u003e Race as Producible and Produced \u003cbr\u003e Race, Heredity, and Eugenics Proper \u003cbr\u003e A Note on Heidegger\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e 4. \"I Just Want Children Like Me\" \u003cbr\u003e Putting Race to Work \u003cbr\u003e Race, Blood, and American Kinship \u003cbr\u003e Denying Common Origins—The American Polygenists \u003cbr\u003e Discouraging Intimacy and Disallowing Kinship \u003cbr\u003e Separation After Slavery \u003cbr\u003e The \"Blood\" in our \"Genes\" \u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e 5. Race and Choice in the Era of Liberal Eugenics \u003cbr\u003e The Neo-Liberal Regime of Truth\u003cbr\u003e Technologies of the Self \u003cbr\u003e The Personal and the Political in Assisted Reproduction \u003cbr\u003e Technologies of the Self as Technologies of Race \u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion \u003cbr\u003e Bibliography \u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52525142868248,"sku":"9780253035820","price":49.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-assisted-reproduction-of-race-hardback-9780253035820","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}