Tag: Evelynn Hammonds

  • Race has long been a potent way of defining differences between human beings. But science and the categories it constructs do not operate in a political vacuum.

  • The Nature of Difference: Sciences of Race in the United States from Jefferson to Genomics MIT Press January 2009 368 pages 7 x 9, 35 illus. Paper ISBN-10: 0-262-58275-9; ISBN-13: 978-0-262-58275-9 Evelynn M. Hammonds, Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of the History of Science and of African and African American Studies (and Dean of Harvard College)…

  • So… What Are You, Anyway? Harvard Half-Asian People’s Association Harvard University 2011-03-25 through 2011-03-26 The Harvard Half-Asian People’s Association will host its third annual conference on mixed-race politics and identity issues, “So…What Are You, Anyway?” (SWAYA) on Friday, March 25 and Saturday, March 26, 2011 on the Harvard University campus. The event is open to…