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83 Fordham L. Rev. 3089 (2014-2015)
Race in the Life Sciences: An Empirical Assessment, 1950-2000

handle is hein.journals/flr83 and id is 3151 raw text is: RACE IN THE LIFE SCIENCES: AN EMPIRICAL ASSESSMENT, 1950-2000 Osagie K. Obasogie,* Julie N. Harris-Wai,** Katherine Darling,*** Carolyn Keagy**** & Michael Levesque***** The mainstream narrative regarding the evolution of race as an idea in the scientific community is that biological understandings of race dominated throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries up until World War II, after which a social constructionist approach is thought to have taken hold. Many believe that the horrific outcomes of the most notorious applications of biological race-eugenics and the Holocaust-moved scientists away from thinking that race reflects inherent differences and toward an understanding that race is a largely social, cultural, and political phenomenon. This understanding of the evolution of race as a scientific idea informed the way that many areas of law conceptualize human equality, including civil rights, human rights, and constitutional law. This Article provides one of the first large-scale empirical assessments of publications in peer-reviewed biomedical and life science journals to * Professor of Law, University of California, Hastings College of the Law with a joint appointment at the University of California, San Francisco, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences; Senior Fellow, Center for Genetics and Society. B.A., Yale University; J.D., Columbia Law School; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley. A special thanks to Megan Canon, Aaron Malinoff, and Christine Rodriguez for their excellent research assistance. The authors thank the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholars program for its financial support. We are also grateful to Nancy Adler, Catherine Bliss, Jonathan Kahn, Ralph Catalano, Robert Hiatt, Ann Morning, and Janet Shim for their helpful comments and guidance. This Article is part of a larger symposium entitled Critical Race Theory and Empirical Methods Conference held at Fordharn University School of Law. For an overview of the symposium, see Kimani Paul-Emile, Foreword: Critical Race Theory and Empirical Methods Conference, 83 FORDHAM L. REv. 2953 (2015). ** Assistant Professor, University of California, San Francisco, Institute for Health and Aging; Staff Scientist, Kaiser Permanente Division of Research. B.A., UNC Chapel Hill; MPH and Ph.D., University of Washington. Part of this research was supported by the National Human Genome Research Institute (Grant number P20 HG 007243). The opinions expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of anyone else. *** Sociology Doctoral Candidate, University of California, San Francisco, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, UCSF Rosenberg-Hill Graduate Research Fellow. B.S. University of California, Berkeley College of Natural Resources. **** Sociology Doctoral Candidate, University of California, San Francisco, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences. ***** Sociology Doctoral Candidate, University of California, San Francisco, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences. B.A., San Francisco State University College of Behavioral Sciences; M.S. University of California, San Francisco. 3089

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