Tag: Dorothy E. Roberts

  • Professor Dorothy Roberts — Challenging Concepts of Race Mixed Race Radio Blog Talk Radio 2013-06-26, 16:00Z (12:00 EDT) Tiffany Rae Reid, Host Dorothy E. Roberts, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology; Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights University of Pennsylvania Dorothy Roberts is the fourteenth Penn Integrates…

  • Author takes on modern myths about race Skokie Review Chicago, Illinois 2013-04-05 Mike Isaacs he 8-year-old girl who had difficulty breathing had been misdiagnosed for a long time, but then a technician looked at her X-ray and asked incredulously why she had not been treated for cystic fibrosis. The reason was because she was black,…

  • Racial Theories in Context (Second Edition) Cognella 2013 224 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-1-60927-056-8 Edited by: Jared Sexton, Associate Professor of African American Studies and Film & Media Studies University of California, Irvine This book presents a critical framework for understanding how and why race matters — past, present, and future. The readings trace the historical…

  • “Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century,” talk by Dorothy Roberts University of Michigan Hatcher Library Gallery, Room 100 913 S. University Avenue Ann Arbor, Michigan 2013-04-04, 16:00-17:30 CDT (Local Time) Dorothy E. Roberts, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology; Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner…

  • ..this was a book that really, completely, changed and challenged everything that I knew and I thought I knew about race. And I thank you for that, because it’s just one of those books that really, really kind of changes your life in a way because it sort of opens things up and makes you…

  • The End of Race History? Not Yet Center for Genetics and Society 2012-12-14 Osagie K. Obasogie, Associate Professor of Law University of California, Hastings Have we gone beyond race? Many argue society has now overcome centuries of strife to become “post-racial”—a moment that law professor Sumi Cho of DePaul University in Chicago refers to as…

  • Biology, race and politics explored in upcoming Chancellor’s Lecture Vanderbilt News Vanderbilt University 2012-10-10 Kara Furlong Is race a biological category written in our genes? Or are genomic scientists and biomedical researchers mistakenly using race to explain away health disparities among different population groups?   Dorothy Roberts, the Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor at the University…

  • Dorothy E. Roberts: Fatal Invention: The New Biopolitics of Race [Vanderbilt University Lecture] Vanderbilt News Vanderbilt University 2012-10-30 Watch video of Dorothy E. Roberts—recently named Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor at the University of Pennsylvania—presenting “Fatal Invention: The New Biopolitics of Race” based on her latest book Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create…

  • Race Under the Microscope: Biological Misunderstandings of Race Center for Genetics and Society 2012-05-24 Despite the fact that advances in genetics undermine the notion that discrete and distinct racial groups exist at the biological level, the science of genetics is inadvertently reinforcing the myth that race is a biological, rather than a social, category. In…

  • Review of Fatal Invention, by Professor Dorothy Roberts Race and the Law: A Critical Examination of Science, Law and the Construction of Race 2011-12-07 Christian B. Sundquist, Associate Professor of Law Albany Law School Professor Dorothy Roberts has recently released a vitally important book on issues of race and genetics, entitled Fatal Invention: How Science,…