The Molecular Reinscription of Race: A Comment on “Genetic Bio-Ancestry and Social Construction of Racial Classification in Social Surveys in the Contemporary United States”

Demography

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 2333-2336

  Frank, Reanne ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bio ancestry; Genetics; Race; Racial classification; Social construction

Indexed keywords

ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GENETICS; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; PEDIGREE; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PEDIGREE; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION;

EID: 84915735815     PISSN: 00703370     EISSN: 15337790     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13524-014-0342-5     Document Type: Article

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