Tag: Dorothy E. Roberts

  • Race has become a prominent focus for human biotechnology. Despite often good intentions, genetic technologies are being applied in a manner that may provide new justification for thinking about racial difference and racial disparities in biological terms—as if social categories of race reflect natural or inherent group differences.

  • A.C.T.O.R. presents Dorothy Roberts Busboys and Poets 14th & V Streets, NW Washington, D.C. Langston Room 2012-10-07, 17:00-19:00 EDT (Local Time) 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 Dorothy Roberts is author of “Fatal Invention: How Science,…

  • A decade after the Human Genome Project proved that human beings are not naturally divided by race, the emerging fields of personalized medicine, reproductive technologies, genetic genealogy, and DNA databanks are attempting to resuscitate race as a biological category written in our genes.

  • Biologically, there is only one human race. Race applied to human beings is a social grouping; it is a system originally devised in the 1700s to support slavery and colonialism that classifies people into a social hierarchy based on invented biological, cultural, and legal demarcations. Dorothy E. Roberts, “Breaking the Bonds of Race and Genomics,”…

  • Twenty years ago it appeared that mainstream science finally was abandoning the concept of biological human races. From 18th century typologists to 20th century eugenicists, scientists have always been instrumental in justifying the myth that the human species is naturally divided by race.

  • Is Race-Based Medicine Good for Us?: African American Approaches to Race, Biomedicine, and Equality The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics Volume 36, Issue 3, September 2008 pages 537–545 DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-720X.2008.302.x Dorothy Roberts, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology; Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights University of…

  • The controversial connection between race, genetics and medicine Minnesota Public Radio News Midmorning Broadcast: 2010-02-03, 09:06 CST Kerri Miller, 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 David Goldstein, Professor of Genetics and Director of the Institute…