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  • Author Meets Reader: Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics and Big Business Recreate Race in the Twenty-First Century by Dorothy Roberts

    Author Meets Reader: Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics and Big Business Recreate Race in the Twenty-First Century by Dorothy Roberts University of California, Irvine School of Law 401 E. Peltason Drive Irvine, California Room 3500 Monday, 2015-11-02, 18:30 PST (Local Time) Sponsored by the Center for Biotechnology and Global Health Policy and the Center on…

  • Penn Lightbulb Café Presents ‘Fatal Invention: Re-creating Race in Genomic Era’

    Penn Lightbulb Café Presents ‘Fatal Invention: Re-creating Race in Genomic Era’ World Cafe Live Upstairs 3025 Walnut Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Tuesday, September 15, 18:00-19:00 EDT (Local Time) Dorothy Roberts, Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor; George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology, Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights, Professor of…

  • IRRPP Annual Bowman Lecture: Fatal Invention: Why The Politics of Race and Science Still Matters

    IRRPP Annual Bowman Lecture: Fatal Invention: Why The Politics of Race and Science Still Matters Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy University of Illinois, Chicago Student Center East 750 S. Halsted St, Room 302 Chicago, Illinois 2015-03-12, 16:00 CDT (Local Time) Dorothy Roberts, Professor of Law and Sociology University of Pennsylvania Co-sponsors: Medical…

  • Dorothy Roberts: Fatal Invention: The New Biopolitics of Race

    Dorothy Roberts: Fatal Invention: The New Biopolitics of Race University of California, Los Angeles School of Law 385 Charles E. Young Drive East 1242 Law Building Los Angeles, California 90095 2015-02-19, 17:00-18:30 PST (Local Time) Room: TBD Dorothy Roberts, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology and the Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner…

  • Dorothy Roberts: Bringing Different Perspectives into Class

    Dorothy Roberts: Bringing Different Perspectives into Class University of Pennsylvania Multimedia 2015-02-12 When Dorothy Roberts was 3 months old, she moved with her parents from Chicago to Liberia, where her mother, Iris, had worked as a young woman after leaving Jamaica. It was the first of Dorothy’s many trips abroad, and one during which her…

  • Penn PIK Professor Dorothy Roberts to Receive APA’s 2015 Fuller Award

    Penn PIK Professor Dorothy Roberts to Receive APA’s 2015 Fuller Award Penn News University of Pennsylvania 2015-01-23 Jacquie Posey, Media Contact Telephone: 215-898-6460 The American Psychiatric Association has named University of Pennsylvania professor Dorothy Roberts recipient of the 2015 Solomon Carter Fuller Award in recognition of her demonstrated leadership and exceptional achievements. The award honors…

  • The Dubious, Dangerous Science of Race Lives On, Says Scholar

    The Dubious, Dangerous Science of Race Lives On, Says Scholar Colorlines: News for Action 2011-09-23 Julianne Hing, Reporter/Blogger Oakland, California Back in the 19th century, scientists thought it was possible to determine a person’s race, and their corresponding levels of intelligence, based on the size of their skull. In the 20th century, mainstream scientists were…

  • Dorothy Roberts, “Fatal Invention: The New Biopolitics of Race.”

    Dorothy Roberts, “Fatal Invention: The New Biopolitics of Race.” McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, L8S4L9, Canada 2014-10-23 Public Lecture: Dorothy Roberts, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology at UPenn, came to McMaster University on October 23, 2014 to give a lecture titled “Fatal Invention: The New Biopolitics of Race.” In her talk, Roberts…

  • Q&A with Dorothy Roberts

    Q&A with Dorothy Roberts Penn Current: News, ideas and conversations from the University of Pennsylvania 2014-10-16 Greg Johnson, Managing Editor When Dorothy Roberts was 3 months old, she moved with her parents from Chicago to Liberia, where her mother, Iris, had worked as a young woman after leaving Jamaica. It was the first of Dorothy’s…

  • Race Medicine: Treating Health Inequities from Slavery to Genomics

    Race Medicine: Treating Health Inequities from Slavery to Genomics University of New England Alfond Center for Health Sciences Room 205 Biddeford, Maine 2014-11-03, 17:30 EST (Local Time) Contact: David Livingstone Smith Phone: (207) 602-2237 Annual David Hume Lecture on Human Nature Dorothy Roberts, J.D., will trace the U.S. history of race medicine—the practice of treating…