The misuse of race in the search for disease-causing alleles

Abstract

In her influential 2000 paper, Levels of Racism: A Theoretic Framework and a Gardener's Tale, Camara Phyllis Jones presented a theoretical framework for understanding racism through an allegory about a gardener with two flower boxes, one with rich and the other with poor soil. The gardener, who prefers red flowers, plants red blossoming seeds in fertile soil but pink blossoming seeds in poor soil (structural racism) and plucks pink blossoming seeds blown into fertile soil (personally mediated racism).