Research — Ruha Benjamin

“Assessing Risk, Automating Racism,” (2019) Science Vol 366, Issue 6464. (paper)

“Prophets and Profits of Racial Science.” (2018) Kalfou: A Journal of Comparative and Relational Ethnic Studies, Vol. 5, Issue 1: 41-53. (abstract)

BLACK AFTERLIVES MATTER

“Black Afterlives Matter: Cultivating Kinfulness as Reproductive Justice,” (2018) in Making Kin Not Population, edited by Adele Clarke and Donna Haraway. Prickly Paradigm Press. (Republished in Boston Review)

CULTURA OBSCURA

“Cultura Obscura: Race, Power, and “Culture Talk” in the Health Sciences.” (2017) American Journal of Law & Medicine Vol 43: 2-3, 225-238. (paper).

WHAT DO WE OWE EACH OTHER?

“What Do We Owe Each Other? Moral Debts and Racial Distrust in Experimental Stem Cell Science,” (2017) Ch6 in Subprime Health: Debt and Race in US Medicine, Ehlers & Hinkson, eds. University of Minnesota Press.

TOWARD A JUSTICE-BASED BIOETHICS

“Informed Refusal: Toward a Justice-based Bioethics.” (2016) Science, Technology, and Human Values. (paper).

CRITICAL RACE STS AND THE CARCERAL IMAGINATION

Catching Our Breath: Critical Race STS and the Carceral Imagination. (2016) Engaging Science, Technology, and Society Vol.2, pp.145-156 (paper).

IF RACE IS A TECHNOLOGY

“Innovating Inequity: If Race is a Technology, Postracialism is the Genius Bar.” (2016) Ethnic and Racial Studies. (paper).

DESIGNER AND DISCARDED GENOMES

“Designer and Discarded Genomes: An Experiment with Speculative Methods Over Time.” (2016) e-flux. (paper).

MOLECULARIZATION OF IDENTITY

“Molecularization of Identity: Science & Subjectivity in the 21st Century.” (2016) Genetics Research (summary paper).

RACIAL FICTIONS, BIOLOGICAL FACTS

“Racial Fictions, Biological Facts: Expanding the Sociological Imagination through Speculative Methods.” (2016) Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience. (paper).

INTERROGATING EQUITY

“Interrogating Equity: A Disability Justice Approach to Human Gene-Editing.” (2016) National Academies of Science. Issues in Science and Technology Vol. 32, Issue 3 (paper)

THE EMPEROR’S NEW GENES

“The Emperor’s New Genes: Science, Public Policy, and the Allure of Objectivity”. (2015) Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 661: 130-142. (paper)

REIMAGINING (BIO)MEDICALIZATION

“Racial Destiny or Dexterity? The Global Circulation of Genomics as an Empowerment Idiom”, (2015) in Reimagining (Bio)Medicalization, Pharmaceuticals and Genetics: Old Critiques and New Engagements, edited by Susan Bell and Anne Figert, Ch.10. (abstract)

RACE FOR CURES

“Race for Cures: Rethinking the Racial Logics of ‘Trust’ in Biomedicine.” (2014) Sociology Compass, Vol. 8, Issue 6, pp. 755-769. (paper)

CONJURING DIFFERENCE, CONCEALING INEQUALITY

“Conjuring Difference, Concealing Inequality.” (2014) Review Essay of Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in America by Karen Fields and Barbara Fields. Theory & Society Vol. 43 (6): 683-688 (paper).

ORGANIZED AMBIVALENCE (REPRINTED)

“Organized Ambivalence: When Stem Cell Research and Sickle Cell Disease Converge,” (2012) Ch. 11 in Genetics and Global Public Health: Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia, Simon Dyson and Karl Atkin, eds. Routledge.