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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 founding director of the UCLA BioCritical Studies Lab: an interdisciplinary space that leverages data science, legal analysis, and social science to study discrimination, inequality, and resilience among vulnerable populations.
 
My teaching, research, and community engagement are concerned with the social, political, and ethical conditions that produce and put an end to injustice within our society.
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Isis A Journal of the History of Science Society, by Terence Keel
Zygon Journal of Religion & Science, by Terence Keel
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Red & Yellow Black & Brown Decentering Whiteness in Mixed Race Studies, by Terence Keel
Kalfou A Journal of Comparative and Relational Ethnic Studies, by Terence Keel
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Divine Variations, a book by Terence Keel
Race and Natural History 1750-1850, by Terence Keel
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Social History of Medicine Volume 28 Number 4, by Terence Keel
American Journal of Law & Medicine Critical Race Theory & the Health Sciences, by Terence Keel
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
Photo of Terence Keel
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DIVINE VARIATIONS

HOW  CHRISTIAN  THOUGHT BECAME  RACIAL  SCIENCE

Divine Variations How Christian Though Became Racial Science, by Terence Keel

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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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