“An incisive use of bioethics, history of philosophy, and race theory to analyze a contemporary issue that is generally not understood as racialized—how the concept of race is conceived and utilized in assisted reproductive technology.”
— Jacqueline Scott, editor (with Judith Treas and Martin Richards) of The Wiley Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Families
“Camisha A. Russell makes a strong case that race has a history of practices, not just a history of ideas, and that eugenics is more central to these practices than we have assumed so far. I know of no other work that drives this point home as well as Russell's does, precisely thanks to her focus on assisted reproductive technologies.”
— Margret Grebowicz, author of Whale Song
“Camisha Russell’s impressive examination of assisted reproductive technologies considers an aggregate of practices that are dependent on the persistence of race as an organizing principle, even as the concept of race is fundamentally discredited. In demonstrating that discourses of race continually and clandestinely produce coherent frameworks for these and other social practices, she offers us crucial insights into why race and racism have proven to be so intransigent.”
— Angela Davis, author of Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
“By exploring the role race plays in reproductive assisting technologies, philosopher Camisha Russell brilliantly reveals race itself as a form of technological reproduction. The Assisted Reproduction of Race is a compelling critique of the way modern science and its technologies continue to remake and use race in a neoliberal era. Deeply engaged with a multidisciplinary array of scholars, Russell makes an essential contribution to critical philosophy of race, bioethics, and technoscience studies.”
— Dorothy Roberts, author of Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty
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