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TERENCE KEEL
PROFESSOR, AUTHOR, & DIRECTOR OF THE BIOCRITICAL STUDIES LAB
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I am a Professor of Human Biology and Science, and African American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. I am also the author of the widely acclaimed Divine Variations and the forthcoming book The Coroner's Silence: Death Records and the Hidden Victims of Police Violence (Nov. 2025).
In 2020 I became the founding director of the UCLA BioCritical Studies Lab, an interdisciplinary space that investigates the interactions between human biology and society.
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DIVINE VARIATIONS
HOW CHRISTIAN THOUGHT BECAME RACIAL SCIENCE
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"Divine Variations brilliantly traces the roots of modern racial science to Christian intellectual history and ideology. Despite the efforts of genomic researchers to portray current biological concepts of race as purely scientific, Keel shows that these scientists are secular creationists retelling religious folklore about the origins of human life. This book is a crucial contribution to the history of racial science.
-Dorothy Roberts, author of Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century
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