Race, Kinship and the Ambivalence of Identity

In this chapter I explore the changing connections between ‘race’ and ‘kinship’.¹ Both are realms in which identities, individual and collective, are constituted. Both are realms where ideas about genetics (and ‘blood’) have been and continue to be central. I argue that a key relationship between ra...

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1. Verfasser:	Peter Wade
Format:	Buchkapitel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Adopted children Adoption Behavioral sciences Biological sciences Biology Children Ethical issues: scientific & technological developments Families Family members Genetics Group identity Human genetics Human populations Human societies International adoption Kinship Medical anthropology Medical genetics Parents Personality psychology Persons Political identity Population studies Prejudices Psychological attitudes Psychology Racial identity Racism Social institutions Social psychology Social sciences Sociology
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Zusammenfassung:	In this chapter I explore the changing connections between ‘race’ and ‘kinship’.¹ Both are realms in which identities, individual and collective, are constituted. Both are realms where ideas about genetics (and ‘blood’) have been and continue to be central. I argue that a key relationship between race and kinship, evident especially but not only in the Western world, is based on what I call race-kinship congruity. This is the idea that people who are related by consanguineous kinship should also have a ‘racial’ appearance that is congruent with – explicable in terms of – their kinship connections. The idea is based on