Intro -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- 1. DEFINING RACE -- 2. EXISTING APPROACHES TO RACE -- 3. HISTORICISING RACIALISED NATURES -- 4. GENETICS AND KINSHIP: THE INTERPENETRATION OF NATURE AND CULTURE -- 5. RACE, NATURE AND CULTURE -- 6. EMBODYING RACIALISED NATURES -- CODA -- NOTES -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Coda -- REFERENCES -- INDEX -- adoption, 86-90 -- Adorno, Theodor, 118 -- Agassiz, Louis 62 -- Anthias, Floya and Nira Yuval-Davis -- 6 -- 8 -- anti-racism 16 -- Aristotle -- 46-7 -- 52 -- Balibar, Etienne, on race and nation 20 -- Banton, Michael -- 9 -- 10 -- 18 -- 39 -- on Thomas Jefferson, 56 -- Benetton, representations of race by 107-8 -- biological-social dichotomy -- 115 -- 121 -- biology -- in adoptive families, 86-90 -- and essentialism, 28 -- and fixity, 6-7 -- and fixity, 30 -- and fixity, 90 -- and fixity, 98 -- and fixity, 108 -- and fixity, 113-14 -- as flexible, 108 -- as flexible, 112 -- as flexible, 120 -- developmental, 114 -- developmental, 115 -- discipline of, 9 -- discipline of, 113-15 -- in definitions of race, 9-11 -- in definitions of race, 69-70 -- in ideas about race, 98 -- in kinship, 79-81 -- in kinship, 85 -- social construction of, 42-3 -- blood -- 37 -- 63 -- 70 -- and genetics, 107 -- in adoptive families, 87-90 -- in gestation, 92 -- in gestation, 106 -- in ideas of race, 97-103 -- in ideas of US kinship, 79 -- in ideas of US kinship, 82 -- in twentieth-century ideas, 83 -- in twentieth-century ideas, 85 -- in twentieth-century ideas, 91 -- in twentieth-century ideas, 95 -- Blumenbach, Johann Friedrich 10-11 -- Boas, Franz 2 -- body, representation of black 116-17 -- Bourdieu, Pierre 117 -- Brazil 123 -- breeding, animal -- 60 -- 61 -- Britain, ideas of race in 105 -- Buffon, Comte de -- 51-2 -- 56 -- Butler, Judith.