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RACE DECODED
The Genomic Fight for Social Justice
Stanford University Press, 2012
Winner of the 2014 Oliver Cromwell Cox Award, sponsored by the ASA Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities.
In 2000, with the success of the Human Genome Project, scientists declared the death of race in biology and medicine. But within five years, many of these same scientists had reversed course and embarked upon a new hunt for the biological meaning of race. read more
SOCIAL BY NATURE
The Promise and Peril of Sociogenomics
Stanford University Press, 2018
Sociogenomics has rapidly become one of the trendiest sciences of the new millennium. Practitioners view human nature and life outcomes as the result of genetic and social factors. In Social by Nature, Catherine Bliss recognizes the promise of this interdisciplinary young science, but also questions its implications for the future. read more
WHAT’S REAL ABOUT RACE? Untangling Genetics, Science, and Society
What’s Real About Race? Untangling Genetics, Science, and Society (W.W. Norton, forthcoming 2025) is a myth-busting exploration of race and genetics arguing that race isn’t a mere social construct, it is a social reality.
Op-eds
”AI can’t teach children to learn. What’s missing?” The Washington Post.
”Conceptualizing Race in the Genomic Age.” The Hastings Center Report.
”DNA Tests for Intelligence Ignore the Real Reasons Why Kids Succeed or Fail.” LeapsMag.
”Do Genes Really Determine Your Hobbies, Relationships, and Voting Behavior? “ Zocalo.
”The Genome Under the Microscope.” Stanford Press.
”A Sociogenomic World." Reconsidering Race: Social Science Perspectives on Racial Categories in the Age of Genomics.
”How I Got to Social By Nature.” The Offing
LATEST BOOK RELEASE
In Rethinking Intelligence, Dr. Bliss shares insights from the burgeoning science of epigenetics to help us harness our environments to empower our minds. If we truly want to nurture potential, we must eliminate toxic stress so that our genes can work optimally, in harmony with our environment. Dr. Bliss offers successful strategies we can use as individuals and a society, including embracing a growth mindset, prioritizing connection, becoming more mindful, and reforming systemic issues—poverty, racism, the lack of quality early childhood education—that have a negative and lasting neurobiological impact.