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Alondra Nelson

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Alondra Nelson is professor of sociology at Columbia University, where she has served as the inaugural Dean of Social Science and director of the Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality. Before arriving at Columbia, she was on the faculty of Yale University and received the Poorvu Award for interdisciplinary teaching excellence.

She is the author or editor of four books, including Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight Against Medical Discrimination, for which she was recognized with the Mirra Komarovsky award as well as several other prizes. Her most recent book is The Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation after the Genome. She is also an editor of Genetics and the Unsettled Past The Collisio ...more

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	Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight Against Medical Discrimination 4.28 avg rating — 523 ratings — published 2011 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation After the Genome 3.97 avg rating — 277 ratings — published 2016 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Essentials of Sociology by Anthony Giddens, Mitchell Duneier, Richard P. Appelbaum 3.61 avg rating — 178 ratings — published 2001 — 38 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	TechniColor: Race, Technology, and Everyday Life by Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu (Editor), Alondra Nelson (Goodreads Author), Alicia Headlam Hines 3.86 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 2001 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Afrofuturism: A Special Issue of Social Text by Alondra Nelson (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Ron Eglash (Contributor), Anna Everett (Contributor) 3.97 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2002	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Introduction to Sociology by Anthony Giddens, Mitchell Duneier, Richard P. Appelbaum 3.16 avg rating — 37 ratings — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Genetics and the Unsettled Past: The Collision of DNA, Race, and History by Keith Wailoo (Editor), Alondra Nelson (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Catherine Lee (Editor) 3.71 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2012 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	New Thoughts on the Black Arts Movement by Margo Natalie Crawford, Alondra Nelson (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Kellie Jones (Contributor) 4.28 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2006 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Revisiting Race in a Genomic Age by Barbara A. Koenig (Editor), Sarah S. Richardson (Editor), Sarah J. Richardson (Editor) 3.50 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2008 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fronesis 66-67. Genetik och ras by Richard Lewontin, Catherine Bliss (Goodreads Author), Daniel Strand liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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