By Keith Wailoo, Alondra Nelson and Catherine Lee (eds)
Genetics and the Unsettled earlier considers the alignment of genetic technological know-how with advertisement tendencies in family tree, with felony and forensic advancements, and with pharmaceutical innovation to check how those developments lend renewed authority to organic understandings of race and historical past. Essays by way of students throughout a variety of disciplines—biology, background, cultural stories, legislations, medication, anthropology, ethnic reports, sociology—explore the rising and infrequently contested connections between race, DNA, and heritage.
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18 Genetic ancestry test results that associated Farmer-Paellmann with the Mende people of Sierra Leone, another plaintiff in the group to Niger, and a third to the Gambia, among other contemporary locations on the African continent, were submitted as an evidential retort to the standing doctrine. The DNA data, the plaintiffs argued, confirmed their hereditary connection to enslaved Africans brought to the United States and thus was also evidence of their legal legitimacy as aggrieved parties. In March 2005, in a lengthy decision, Judge Norgle dismissed the plaintiffs’ second case—once again primarily on the basis of standing.
Genetic analysis was deemed capable of resolving centuries-old and deeply entrenched disputes and debates about racial slavery in the United States. 27 Clearly, the issues, controversies, and questions we pose to science about race and the unsettled past can never find resolution in the science itself. ”28 For Weinberg, some questions posed to science—typically metaphysical questions or moral ones— cannot be answered or resolved by science. The illegibility of genetic testing as proof of ancestry in civil suits and historiography—despite its use in other courts and for other operations of state power, such as the reunification of immigrant families (as described in work in progress by sociologist Catherine Lee), suggests the trans-scientific.
12. “Judge Drops Suit Seeking Reparations, Slave Descendents Vow to Appeal,” Chicago Tribune (January 27, 2004). 13. On standing in reparations suits, see Eric J. Miller, “Representing the Race: Standing to Sue in Reparations Lawsuits,” Harvard BlackLetter Law Journal 20 (2004): 91–114. 14. “Judge Rejects Slavery Reparations Lawsuit,” Chicago Sun-Times (January 27, 2004) (emphasis added). 15. Miller, “Representing the Race,” 93. 16. Ibid. 17. , 94. 18. ” In 2006, the OTU initiated an online petition to nominate geneticist Rick Kittles (co-founder of the African Ancestry company genetic genealogy tests, which had been submitted in the Farmer-Paellmann reparations suit) for the Nobel Prize.