Topic:  DNA, Genetic testing kits. Race deconstruction, Ancestry, Indigenous Anthropology, Medical Anthropology

Participants: Laurette McGuire  PhD,  Associate  Professor,  Medical and Indigenous Anthropology,   CSU  San  Marcos
Broadcast Air Date: 03/01/19
Time: 5:15 PM (PST)
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Discussion Topics:

• Medical Anthropology
• Indigenous Anthropology
• Why is Race a social construct?
• Can DNA kits tell us your race?
• Can the DNA kits provide a racial composition if race is a social construct?
• Can you be “part Indian?”
• How do indigenous communities define community membership?
• Can biology tell you where you come from?
• Are the present DNA ancestry movements based on the past assumptions of race-based beliefs of blood differences?
• The paternity tests are different from the pseudo-scientific classifications of   race?
• What does it mean to have a percentage of previously unknown membership?
• How do we define community membership in a non- biological basis?
• How do the companies test your DNA for ancestry?
• Why do the companies use probability and statistics to determine social ancestry?
• Can people go to biology in order to make sense of their social realities?
• What is the history of Anthropology as part of the colonial project?
• Can DNA be sold and traded for profit?
• How much money is made from holding on to the old ideas of race and nationality as biologically based?
• How much will capitalism benefit from  turning DNA into a profit commodity?
• Who you are and who claims you is a lot more than your DNA?
• What is the difference between pan- ethnicity and ethnicity?
• How will DNA be used to question indigenous communities as authentic or inauthentic?”
• Kimberly TallBear,  PhD
• Will the US government use DNA markers to empower or hurt people?
• Do the DNA ancestry kits tell you if you are America?
• Why is racial purity absent from the DNA results?