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Sarah Abel
My research looks at racism and sexism in genomics, visual culture, and generative AI, with a focus on Latin American contexts.
Working at the intersections of the philosophy of science, social anthropology, science and technology studies, and critical race studies, I aim to understand how emerging technologies stand to reproduce structures of oppression, and propose how they could instead contribute to global, intersectional struggles for social justice.
My work has been supported by the British Academy, Humanities in the European Research Area, and Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, and I previously held affiliations at the University of Cambridge, the University of Iceland, the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), and the Centre international de recherches sur les esclavages & post-esclavages (CIRESC), Paris.
Working at the intersections of the philosophy of science, social anthropology, science and technology studies, and critical race studies, I aim to understand how emerging technologies stand to reproduce structures of oppression, and propose how they could instead contribute to global, intersectional struggles for social justice.
My work has been supported by the British Academy, Humanities in the European Research Area, and Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, and I previously held affiliations at the University of Cambridge, the University of Iceland, the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), and the Centre international de recherches sur les esclavages & post-esclavages (CIRESC), Paris.
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This book engages these debates by looking at the ways genomic ancestry testing has been used in Brazil and the United States to address the histories and legacies of slavery, from personal genealogical projects to collective racial politics. Reckoning with the struggles of science versus capitalism, "race-blind" versus "race-positive" public policies, and identity fluidity versus embodied experiences of racism, Permanent Markers seeks to explain why societies that have broadly embraced the social construction of race continue to search for, and find, evidence that our bodies are indelibly marked by the past.
http://www.cunorte.udg.mx/investigacion/publicaciones/educaciones-y-racismos-reflexiones-y-casos
This book engages these debates by looking at the ways genomic ancestry testing has been used in Brazil and the United States to address the histories and legacies of slavery, from personal genealogical projects to collective racial politics. Reckoning with the struggles of science versus capitalism, "race-blind" versus "race-positive" public policies, and identity fluidity versus embodied experiences of racism, Permanent Markers seeks to explain why societies that have broadly embraced the social construction of race continue to search for, and find, evidence that our bodies are indelibly marked by the past.