Questioning Racial Prescriptions: An Interview with Jonathan Xavier Inda. (December 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Merz, Sibille; Xavier Inda, Jonathan
• Is Part Of: Theory, culture & society. Volume 33:Number 7/8(2016)
• Page Start: 338
• Page End: 349
• Publication Date: 2016-12
• Subjects: BiDil -- biomedicine -- molecular biopolitics -- race; Social sciences -- Periodicals; 301.05
• DOI: 10.1177/0263276416672536
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0263-2764

Abstract

In Racial Prescriptions, Jonathan Xavier Inda offers a critical and timely analysis of the making of BiDil, the first (and only) drug that was marketed exclusively to African Americans. Sibille Merz speaks to him about the re-articulation of racial politics under neoliberalism, the legacies of scientific racism and the molecularization of biopolitics in the genomic age.