Tag: Dorothy Roberts

  • The myth of race, debunked in 3 minutes Vox 2015-01-13 Jenée Desmond Harris You may know exactly what race you are, but how would you prove it if somebody disagreed with you? Jenée Desmond Harris explains. And for more on how race is a social construct, click here.

  • Pharmacogenomics and the Biology of Race Myles Jackson, Albert Gallatin Research Excellence Professor of the History of Science New York University The Huffington Post 2015-01-05 The numerous and impassioned responses to Nicholas Wade’s recently published Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History have once again reminded us of the complexity, ambiguity and perils of writing…

  • 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 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 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…

  • Dorothy Roberts Lecture: “Fatal Invention: The New Biopolitics of Race” McMaster University CIBC Hall, McMaster University Student Centre (MUSC 319) 280 Main Street West Hamilton, Ontario, L8S4L9, Canada 2014-10-23, 19:00-21:00 EDT (Local Time) The Bourns Lectureship in Bioethics and the McMaster Centre for Scholarship in the Public Interest present a lecture by Dorothy Roberts, George…

  • Fatal Invention with Dorothy Roberts Research at the National Archives and Beyond BlogTalk Radio Thursday, 2014-07-24, 21:00 EDT, (Friday, 2014-07-25, 01:00Z) Bernice Bennett, Host Dorothy Roberts, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology; Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights University of Pennsylvania Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and…

  • Approaching race as a social rather than biological construct The Daily Pennsylvanian Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 2014-04-08 Laura Anthony The Program on Race, Science and Society will examine the role of race in scientific research at upcoming symposium In 1851, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine graduate Samuel Cartwright delivered a report to the Medical Association…

  • Penn symposium tackles race, science, and society Penn Current: News Ideas and conversations from the University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania 2014-04-03 Katherine Unger Baillie Is race a biological category? How does race figure into scientific research, clinical practice, and the development and use of biotechnology and pharmaceuticals? And what can we learn from historical…

  • Fatal Invention: The New Biopolitics of Race and Gender – Dorothy Roberts University of California, Berkeley Alumni House Friday, 2014-03-07, 17:00-19:30 PST (Local Time) Join us for a discussion with Prof. Dorothy Roberts, University of Pennsylvania Law School, author of Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century.  Lecture…