Peter Wade is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester and the author and editor of many books, including Mestizo Genomics, also published by Duke University Press, and Race: An Introduction.

Preface  vii
Acknowledgments  xi
Introduction. Mixture as a Biological Process  1
I. Purity and Mixture
1. Purity and Mixture in Human Population Genetics  27
2. From Eugenics to Blood Types  53
II. Genetics and Multiculturalism
3. Changing Practices  85
4. Colombia, Country of Regions  99
5. Brazil, Race, and Affirmative Action  122
6. Mexico, Public Health, and State Genomics  146
7. Genomics & Multiculturalism: Comparisons and Continuities  166
III. Narrating Mixture
8. Gender, Genealogy, and Mestizaje  191
9. The Geneticization of Race and Diversity in Everyday Life 223
Conclusion  258
Notes  267
References  273
Index  315