Ending genetic essentialism through genetics education

BM Donovan - Human Genetics and Genomics Advances, 2022 - cell.com
Genetic concepts are regularly used in arguments about racial inequality. This review
summarizes research about the relationship between genetics education and a particular …

Toward a more humane genetics education: Learning about the social and quantitative complexities of human genetic variation research could reduce racial bias in …

BM Donovan, R Semmens, P Keck… - Science …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
When people are exposed to information that leads them to overestimate the actual amount
of genetic difference between racial groups, it can augment their racial biases. However …

[图书][B] Social by nature: The promise and peril of sociogenomics

C Bliss - 2018 - books.google.com
Sociogenomics has rapidly become one of the trendiest sciences of the new millennium.
Practitioners view human nature and life outcomes as the result of genetic and social factors …

Genomics literacy matters: Supporting the development of genomics literacy through genetics education could reduce the prevalence of genetic essentialism

BM Donovan, M Weindling, B Salazar… - Journal of Research …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Recently, it has been argued that improving students' genomics literacy could prevent
students from developing erroneous beliefs about social identity, such as the belief that …

Learned inequality: Racial labels in the biology curriculum can affect the development of racial prejudice

BM Donovan - Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
For over a century, genetic arguments for the existence of racial inequality have been used
to oppose policies that promote social equality. And, over that same time period, American …

The genomic revolution and beliefs about essential racial differences: a backdoor to eugenics?

JC Phelan, BG Link… - American sociological …, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
Could the explosion of genetic research in recent decades affect our conceptions of race? In
Backdoor to Eugenics, Duster argues that reports of specific racial differences in genetic …

When do people deploy genetic determinism? A review pointing to the need for multi‐factorial theories of public utilization of scientific discourses

CM Condit - Sociology Compass, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
For over two decades, scholars in the humanities and social sciences have attended warily
and thoughtfully to the growing influence of biological and especially genetics‐based …

Janus‐faced race: Is race biological, social, or mythical?

A Hochman - American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
As belief in the reality of race as a biological category among US anthropologists has fallen,
belief in the reality of race as a social category has risen in its place. The view that race …

From basic to humane genomics literacy: how different types of genetics curricula could influence anti-essentialist understandings of race

BM Donovan, M Weindling, DM Lee - Science & Education, 2020 - Springer
Genetic essentialism of race is the belief that racial groups have different underlying genetic
essences which cause them to differ physically, cognitively, or behaviorally. Apparently, no …

Laypeople are strategic essentialists, not genetic essentialists

CM Condit - Hastings Center Report, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
In the last third of the twentieth century, humanists and social scientists argued that attention
to genetics would heighten already‐existing genetic determinism, which in turn would …