What Can DNA Really Tell Us About Race?Posted in Health/Medicine/Genetics, Media Archive, Videos on 2010-09-20 04:55Z by Steven |
What Can DNA Really Tell Us About Race?
UCtelevision
Unviersity of California
2007-04-25
00:54:55
Introduction by
Howard Winnant, Professor of Sociology
University of California, Santa Barbara
Troy Duster, Chancellor’s Professor of Sociology
University of California, Berkeley
and
Professor of Sociology and Director of the Institute for the History of the Production of Knowledge
New York University
One of the leading authorities on race and science, Troy Duster discusses how the understanding of race is being reshaped by the genomics revolution. Sometimes unintentionally and sometimes not so innocently, genomics may be generating a new and more sophisticated racism, not so different from the eugenics-based and criminological racism that flourished in decades gone by. Series: “Voices” [7/2007] [Public Affairs] [Humanities] [Science] [Show ID: 13008]