title: 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".
abstract: In an article in the February 2014 issue of Demography, Guo et al. claimed that their research "establishes geographic genetic bio-ancestry as a component of racial classification" (p. 141). In doing so, they argued that their work has "a larger theoretical significance on identity studies" (p. 169) by providing racial classification categories with a concrete, "measurable," and "logical" basis against which social construction should be analyzed. Instead, I argue that their main accomplishment is the "molecular reinscription of race" (Duster 2011:104). In this article, I review the existing critiques of this type of work.
authors.affiliation: Department of Sociology, The Ohio State University, 238 Townshend Hall, Columbus, OH, 43210, USA, frank.219@osu.edu.
authors.forename: Reanne
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Frank
mesh_terms: D003625:Data Collection; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010375:Pedigree; D044469:Racial Groups / Q000235:genetics* / Q000523:psychology*; D012933:Social Identification