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This innovative ethnographic study animates the racial politics that underlie genomic research into type 2 diabetes, one of the most widespread chronic diseases and one that affects ethnic groups disproportionately. Michael J. Montoya follows blood donations from "Mexican-American" donors to laboratories that are searching out genetic contributions to diabetes. His analysis lays bare the politics and ethics of the research process, addressing the implicit contradiction of undertaking genetic research that reinscribes race's importance even as it is being demonstrated to have little scientific validity. In placing DNA sampling, processing, data set sharing, and carefully crafted science into a broader social context, Making the Mexican Diabetic underscores the implications of geneticizing disease while illuminating the significance of type 2 diabetes research in American life.

Diabetes -- Social aspects. --- Genetics -- Research -- Social aspects. --- Health and race -- United States. --- Medical anthropology. --- Mexican Americans -- Health and hygiene. --- Non-insulin-dependent diabetes -- Mexico -- Genetic aspects. --- Social medicine. --- Type 2 diabetes --- Mexican Americans --- Genetics --- Health and race --- Diabetes --- Medical anthropology --- Social medicine --- Diabetes Mellitus --- Genetic Research. --- Indians, North American --- Mexican Americans. --- Risk Factors. --- Socioeconomic Factors. --- Genetic aspects --- Health and hygiene --- Social aspects --- Research --- ethnology. --- Mexico. --- United States. --- bodies. --- chicano studies. --- chronic diseases. --- chronic illness. --- data set sharing. --- diabetes. --- disease. --- dna sampling. --- emigration. --- ethnic groups. --- ethnic studies. --- ethnicity. --- ethnography. --- genetic information. --- genetic research. --- genetics. --- genomes. --- genomic research. --- health care. --- health policy. --- health. --- hispanic. --- immigration. --- latina. --- latino. --- latinx. --- medical research. --- medicine. --- mexican american. --- migration. --- minorities. --- nonfiction. --- race. --- racial politics. --- science. --- sociology. --- type 2 diabetes.