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Troy Duster

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PhD Sociology Northwestern University
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According to Wikipedia, Troy Smith Duster is an American sociologist with research interests in the sociology of science, public policy, race and ethnicity and deviance. He is a Chancellor’s Professor of Sociology at University of California, Berkeley, and professor of sociology and director of the Institute for the History of the Production of Knowledge at New York University.

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Backdoor to eugenics (1990) (338)
Race and Reification in Science (2005) (292)
The Science and Business of Genetic Ancestry Testing (2007) (225)
The case for strategic international alliances to harness nutritional genomics for public and personal health† (2005) (170)
Genetic Information and the Workplace: Legislative Approaches and Policy Challenges (1997) (146)
A post-genomic surprise. The molecular reinscription of race in science, law and medicine. (2015) (123)
Comparative Perspectives and Competing Explanations: Taking on the Newly Configured Reductionist Challenge to Sociology (2006) (106)
Research ethics for mental health science involving ethnic minority children and youths (2002) (105)
Race and Genetics Controversies in Biomedical, Behavioral, and Forensic Sciences (2005) (97)
Research ethics for mental health science involving ethnic minority children and youths. (2002) (95)
Race and genetics: controversies in biomedical, behavioral, and forensic sciences. (2005) (95)
The molecular reinscription of race: unanticipated issues in biotechnology and forensic science (2006) (93)
Race, genetics, and disease: questions of evidence, matters of consequence. (2008) (83)
The legislation of morality: law, drugs, and moral judgment (1971) (80)
Crime, Youth Unemployment, and the Black Urban Underclass (1987) (63)
The “Morphing” Properties of Whiteness (2001) (62)
The Illusive Gold Standard in Genetic Ancestry Testing (2009) (60)
Lessons from History: Why Race and Ethnicity Have Played a Major Role in Biomedical Research (2006) (55)
Approaching ethical, legal and social issues of emerging forensic DNA phenotyping (FDP) technologies comprehensively: Reply to 'Forensic DNA phenotyping: Predicting human appearance from crime scene material for investigative purposes' by Manfred Kayser. (2016) (48)
Medicalisation of race (2007) (47)
Selective Arrests, an Ever-Expanding DNA Forensic Database, and the Specter of an Early - Twenty-First-Century Equivalent of Phrenology (2004) (44)
Whitewashing Race (2019) (43)
Explaining Differential Trust of DNA Forensic Technology: Grounded Assessment or Inexplicable Paranoia? (2006) (42)
Do Health and Forensic DNA Databases Increase Racial Disparities? (2011) (41)
Clines Without Classes (2014) (41)
Reconstructing Race in (2008) (36)
Ancestry Testing and DNA: Uses, Limits – and Caveat Emptor (2016) (36)
Race and Genetics (2005) (22)
Individual Fairness, Group Preferences, and the California Strategy (1996) (20)
The Long Path to Higher Education for African Americans (2009) (19)
The Bell Curve: statement by the NIH-DOE Joint Working Group on the Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications of Human Genome Research. (1996) (17)
Field work and the protection of human subjects. (1979) (17)
Ancestry Testing and DNA (2011) (17)
The new crisis of legitimacy in controls, prisons, and legal structures (1995) (16)
Introduction to Unconscious Racism Debate (2008) (15)
The Structure of Privilege and Its Universe of Discourse. (1976) (15)
Cultural Perspectives on Biological Knowledge (1984) (13)
Social Implications of the “New” Black Urban Underclass (1988) (12)
Introduction: Race, Genetics, and Disease (2008) (11)
The visions and divisions of American sociology (2010) (11)
Social diversity in humans: implications and hidden consequences for biological research. (2014) (11)
Pathways and barriers to genetic testing and screening: Molecular genetics meets the high-risk family. Final report (1997) (10)
Policy Forum Also see the archival list of Science's Compass: Enhanced Perspectives MEDICINE: Enhanced: Race and Reification in Science (2009) (9)
Engaged Learning across the Curriculum: The Vertical Integration of Food for Thought. (2006) (8)
The visions and divisions of sociology (2005) (6)
The Epistemological Challenge of the Early Attack on “Rate Construction” (2001) (5)
Graduate education at berkeley (1987) (5)
Chapter 13. Buried Alive (2019) (4)
Student Interests, Student Power, and the Swedish Experience (1968) (4)
Feedback Loops in the Politics of Knowledge Production (2004) (4)
The Sociology of Science and the Revolution in Molecular Biology (2008) (4)
From Structural Analysis to Public Policy@@@The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy. (1988) (4)
Understanding Self-Segregation on the Campus. (1991) (4)
Microscopic Hair Comparison and the Sociology of Science (2016) (3)
All That Glitters Isn’t Gold (2011) (3)
Human Genetics, Evolutionary Theory, and Social Stratification (2004) (3)
Book Review: Truth Machine: The Contentious History of DNA Fingerprinting (2009) (3)
The Prism of Heritability and The Sociology of Knowledge: What Questions? Whose Questions? (2004) (3)
The labelling approach to deviance (2003) (3)
Emergence vs. Reductionism in the Debate over the Role of Biology in Politics (2013) (3)
48. The Science and Business of Genetic Ancestry Testing (2019) (3)
The Science and Business of Ancestry Testing (2007) (2)
Response to comments on 'A post-genomic surprise'. (2015) (2)
Purpose and bias (1987) (2)
Debating Reality and Relevance (2009) (2)
Cline's Recombinant DNA Experiment as Political Rashomon (1987) (2)
Eugenics by the Back Door (2004) (2)
The Legislation of Morality: Law, Drugs, and Moral Judgment. (1971) (2)
Bioscience and society (1990) (2)
“The ‘Morphing’ Properties of Whiteness” (2020) (1)
Repairing the National Memory by Acknowledging the Living Presence of Our Childhood Locked in the Closet (2004) (1)
3. Keeping Blacks In Their Place: Race, Education, And Testing (2019) (1)
The Increasing Appropriation of Genetic Explanations (2004) (1)
Engaged Learning as a Bridge to Civic Engagement (2014) (1)
Between camps/against race. Author's reply (2002) (1)
Patterns of deviant reaction: Some theoretical issues (2004) (1)
What's New in the IQ Debate (1995) (1)
Race Preferences and Race Privileges (2020) (1)
Scratch a Theory, You Find a Biography (2019) (1)
Inherited Genetic Disorders and Inherited Social Orders (2003) (1)
They're Taking Over! and Other Myths about Race on Campus (2020) (1)
Taking a Closer Look at Research with Children (2006) (1)
In Memoriam: Dorothy Nelkin (2003) (1)
Sociological Stranger in the Land of the Human Genome Project (2002) (1)
Reply to Glazer (1979) (1)
Genetic variation and disorders in peoples of African origin (1991) (0)
The Accumulation and Disaccumulation of Opportunity (2019) (0)
Review Symposium (2002) (0)
The Quality of the Quantity: Information Technology and the Evaluation of Data (1997) (0)
Book Reviews (1998) (0)
Neutrality and Ideology in Genetic Disorder Control (2004) (0)
Acknowledgments to Referees (2020) (0)
Some Social Implications of the Molecular Biological Revolution (2003) (0)
Black Politics or Black Culture (1971) (0)
PHASE I - RESEARCH PLAN. INSTITUTIONS AND LIFE STYLES PROJECT. BART IMPACT PROGRAM (1975) (0)
UC Berkeley ISSI Project Reports and Working Papers Title Pathways and Barriers to Genetic Testing and Screening : Molecular Genetics Meets the " High-risk Family " Permalink (2007) (0)
Aims and Control of the Universities: A Comparative Study of Academic Governance in Sweden and the United States. (1972) (0)
Differential trust in DNA forensics: grounded assessment or inexplicable paranoia? (2007) (0)
Conclusion: Facing Up To Race (2019) (0)
Dangers of New Eugenics Technologies@@@Backdoor to Eugenics. (1991) (0)
The Genetic Screening of “Target” Populations (2004) (0)
27. Welcome, Freshmen: DNA Swabs, Please (2019) (0)
4. Been In The Pen So Long: Race, Crime, And Justice (2019) (0)
Final Report: An Evaluation of Selected AmeriCorps Programs (1996) (0)
Volume Information (1972) (0)
PATTERNS OF MINORITY RELATIONS. (1964) (0)
Interview with Troy Duster, New York University (2008) (0)
6. Color-Blindness As Color Consciousness: Voting Rights And Political Equality (2019) (0)
From Structural Analysis to Public Policy (2016) (0)
2. The Bankruptcy Of Virtuous Markets: Racial Inequality, Poverty, And “Individual Failure” (2019) (0)
INSTITUTIONS AND LIFE STYLES WORK PLAN. PHASE I, RESEARCH PLAN (1975) (0)
Reflections on the American Cultures Requirement. (1997) (0)
Eugenics: Contemporary Echoes (2006) (0)
Theorizing Difference: A Conceptual Advance (2008) (0)
Afterword: The New and Emerging Relationship between Behavioral and Molecular Genetics (2003) (0)
IMPACTS OF BART ON BAY AREA POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS (1977) (0)
Affirmative Discrimination: Ethnic Inequality and Public Policy.Nathan Glazer (1978) (0)
Book Review:Class, Culture and Alienation: A Study of Farmers and Farm Workers. William A. Rushing (1974) (0)
Dilemmas of a “General” Genetic Disorder Control Policy (2003) (0)
Chapter 12. Social Issues Lurking in the Over-Representation of Young African American Men in the Expanding DNA Databases (2008) (0)
Medicine, Culture, and Sickle Cell Disease (2002) (0)

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