"If you like, you cannot take care of the self in the realm and form of the universal. The care of the self cannot appear and, above all, cannot be practiced simply by virtue of being human as such, just by belonging to the human community, although this membership is very important. It can only be practiced within the group, and within the group in its distinctive character.” (Foucault, 2005 [1982]: 117 as quoted in Fullwiley, 2008)
“That genomic technologies allow black people to participate in a U.S. ideology of genealogical ‘rootedness’ (by making it possible to bypass documentary obliteration by molecular–biological means) does not make their investment in Old World origins less ‘American’…” (Palmié, Stephan. "Genomics, divination, ‘racecraft.’" American ethnologist 34, no. 2 (2007): 205-222.)
“Dissociation and affinity, difference and similarity, have been with us for perhaps as long as our genes and our ideas of human groups.” (Fullwiley, 2008)