ColorLines Features Race and Biotech
Posted by Marcy Darnovsky September 24, 2007
Biopolitical Times
A terrific cover and three articles in the September/October issue of ColorLines take on the increasingly fraught issues of race and human biotechnology. Ziba Kashef’s cover story, “Genetic Drift,” shows how genetic science and its applications are reviving and reshaping debates about race as a biological category. In “Reproductive Racism,” Preeti Shekar looks at the targeting of Asian communities by purveyors of sex selection technologies. And in “The Rebirth of a Nation: Glorifying eugenics in a cult classic for our times,” our own Osagie Obasogie takes a close look at the blockbuster movie 300, which he describes as “arguably the most racially charged movie since The Birth of a Nation.”