Aaron Panofsky, PhD, Associate Professor in Public Policy and the Institute for Society and Genetics University of California, Los Angeles
This talk presents preliminary research from a study of white nationalists and their efforts to appropriate genetics and biology research for their own ideological and identity projects. Using historical sources and online data and interpretive methods, we show that ideas from genetics have been prominent in public pronouncements and in online discussions among white nationalists and the alt right. We track these efforts across five domains: racist science journalism, “extremely online” scientific racism, genetic ancestry test hobbyism, the human biodiversity movement, and the emergence of a race science pseudodiscipline at the academic margins. Scientific racism, I argue, is being reconstituted as a citizen science movement.
Seminar on Ethical, Legal and Social Implications of Genetics
12:00-1:00 pm
Note: This will be an ONLINE seminar. Click the Zoom link to join.
