Ordering the Human presents cutting-edge interdisciplinary scholarship that examines the racialization of science in various global contexts, illuminating how racial logics have been deployed to classify, marginalize, and oppress.

Preface
Introduction, by Eram Alam
Part I: Stability and Circulation
1. Origins of Races, Organs of Intellect: Polygenism, Political Order, and the Enlightenment Construction of Cranial Race Science, by Paul Wolff Mitchell
2. Unbecoming Subjects: Psychiatry, Race, and Disordering the Human, by Eric Reinhart
3. Locating the Child in Racial Science: Scenes from Latin America, by Sebastián Gil-Riaño and Julia E. Rodriguez
4. Race and Sameness: On Ordering the Human and the Specificities of Us-ness and Other-ness, by Amade Aouatef M'charek
5. The Racial Calculus: Security and Policy During the COVID-19 Global Pandemic, by Denise Ferreira da Silva
Part II: Purity and Mixture
6. Biometric Hybridity: Anglo-Indians, Race, and National Science in India, 1916-1969, by Projit Bihari Mukharji
7. "Multicultural Genes in Our Blood"? Genetic Governance and Biocultural Purity in South Korea, by Jaehwan Hyun
8. The Dilemmas of Racial Classification in Brazil: Reflections on Two Contemporary Case Studies, by João Luiz Bastos and Ricardo Ventura Santos
Part III: Past and Promise
9. Facing the Past: Human Skulls, Facial Reconstruction, and National Identity in the Middle East, by Elise K. Burton
10. Racism and Weightism in the M¿ori Community: From Weight-Focused Health to Indigenous Solutions, by Isaac Warbrick
11. After Race Classification: Grappling with South African Indigenous DNA in Practice, by Noah Tamarkin
12. The South Asian Heart Disease Paradox: History, Epidemiology, and Contested Narratives of Susceptibility, by Alyssa Botelho and David S. Jones
13. Roots of Coincidence: The Racial Politics of COVID-19, by Banu Subramaniam
List of Contributors
Index

Eram Alam is an assistant professor in the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University.
Dorothy Roberts is the George A. Weiss University Professor of Law & Sociology, Raymond Pace & Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights, professor of Africana studies, and director of the Program on Race, Science, and Society at the University of Pennsylvania.
Natalie Shibley is a visiting assistant professor of women's, gender, and sexuality studies at Northeastern University.