What Can DNA Really Tell Us About Race?

One of the leading authorities on race and science, Troy Duster discusses how the understanding of race is being reshaped by the genomics revolution. Sometimes unintentionally and sometimes not so innocently, genomics may be generating a new and more sophisticated racism, not so different from the eugenics-based and criminological racism that flourished in decades gone by. Series: "Voices" [7/2007] [Public Affairs] [Humanities] [Science] [Show ID: 13008]

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Education

Tags:

• DNA
• science
• race
• Troy
• Duster

[TemporalOnline]

Thumbs up if ZOMGitsCriss brought you here and you are watching and will watch it till the end!

[MissLoveTantei91]

No use caring what racists think. They're just sad people with low self-esteem desperate to feel pride in something, and so they cling to their skin and hair appearence as their hope in feeling any self-worth. Especially in this changing world where where non-whites are rising in power. It's similar to insecue girls who put down other girls for their looks above all else. If being a "nigger" or a "chink" is the only way you can insult someone, then frankly, you have nothing on them at all.

[Gentilejedi]

Excellent presentation.

[JamesEzSecretChannel]

very interesting lecture, I'm still not sure what the conclusion is though,

are DNA tests claiming to identify race reliable?

[greycloud24]

@greycloud24 the construct of "race" may be a social construct. but at the same time you do inherit genes from your ancestors. if your ancestors came from one area than you are very likely to have inherited different genes than if they had come from a different area. we like to think of this as conforming to race, but really race conforms to evolution and evolution acts on genes. there very much is a genetic difference in race, we are just thinking about it in the wrong way.

[greycloud24]

the speaker assumes that the dna tests were not done on people who could already trace their linage. we have gained vast sums of dna data of non-nomadic natives from around the world. this is how we know humans originated in east africa. you can further break down dna groups into northern european, southern european, north african, east african, south african, north american, south american, austrailian. basically any major terrain separation that would prevent nomadic ancestors for a while.

[PurpleGhost]

@mikesheen741 - How very lazy of you.

[Paxmax]

Nothing in science is 100%, still the DNA sampling technique works pretty good, but is no replacement everything else.

Just as I expected.

I equal Mr. Duster's best effort to discredit DNA and ethnicity to a creationist handing over marine life samples for carbon dating, just to scream "CARBON DATING DOESN'T WORK!". It works fine, just know the pitfalls and llimits. Geez.

[SilverIcetail]

Thumbs up if ZOMGitsCriss brought you here and you're freaking tired of thumbs up-posts...

[Otokogoroshi]

God I could NOT WAIT for that guy who did the introduction to leave! *LOUD BREATH. SMACK!* not a very good habit for a public speaker.