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1Women's and Gender Studies Department, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts, USA.
Abstract:
In this article, I explore how ethnicity codes are used in a prenatal trial in the United Kingdom. Here, ethnicity codes are generative objects that relationally cohere across staff, surveys and pregnant participants to create racial improvisations. I examine the origins and adaptations of ethnicity codes across three ethnographic and historical cases at micro and macro scales. The improvisation of race is a window into the movements, negotiations and temporality of racialization in clinical practice. By conceiving race as mercurial, I argue that improvisation is a key mechanism for the routinization of racial categories in clinical practice.
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