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  • Within this context [of the failed policy of Eugenics], it becomes clear that the issues involved in Loving extended beyond its current popular understanding as a tribute to romance.

    Within this context [of the failed policy of eugenics], it becomes clear that the issues involved in Loving extended beyond its current popular understanding as a tribute to romance. Indeed, for a case heralded for being about the boundless nature of love, there is surprisingly little discussion about this in the Loving decision apart from…

  • Was Loving v. Virginia Really About Love?

    Fifty years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down state laws banning interracial marriage, but the issues involved in the case extended beyond its current popular understanding as a tribute to romance.

  • When you say you ‘don’t see race’, you’re ignoring racism, not helping to solve it

    When you say you ‘don’t see race’, you’re ignoring racism, not helping to solve it The Guardian 2015-01-26 Zach Stafford Race is such an ingrained social construct that even blind people can ‘see’ it. To pretend it doesn’t exist to you erases the experiences of black people People love to tell me that they often…

  • Colloquium: Blinded by Sight: Seeing Race Through the Eyes of the Blind

    Colloquium: Blinded by Sight: Seeing Race Through the Eyes of the Blind University of Pennsylvania 103 McNeil Building 3718 Locust Walk Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6299 Wednesday, 2014-01-29, 12:00-13:00 EST (Local Time) Osagie K. Obasogie, Professor of Law University of California, Hastings College of the Law Professor Obasogie’s research attempts to bridge the conceptual and methodological gaps between…

  • Blinded by Sight: Seeing Race Through the Eyes of the Blind

    In “Blinded by Sight,” Obasogie argues that rather than being visually obvious, both blind and sighted people are socialized to see race in particular ways, even to a point where blind people “see” race.

  • The End of Race History? Not Yet

    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…

  • Race Under the Microscope: Biological Misunderstandings of Race

    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…

  • Playing the Gene Card? A Report on Race and Human Biotechnology

    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.

  • Race-Based Medicine: Déjà Vu All Over Again?

    Race-Based Medicine: Déjà Vu All Over Again? Biopolitical Times: The weblog of the Center for Genetics and Society 2012-09-18 Osagie K. Obasogie, Associate Professor of Law University of California, San Francisco Also: Senior Fellow Center for Genetics and Society Race-based medicine has been one of the more contentious issues in pharmaceutical research and development over…

  • Slooooooow Sales for BiDil®

    Slooooooow Sales for BiDil® Biopolitical Times: The weblog of the Center for Genetics and Society 2006-10-18 Osagie K. Obasogie, Associate Professor of Law University of California, San Francisco Also: Senior Fellow Center for Genetics and Society Today’s Wall Street Journal reports that sales for BiDil®—the first drug to receive FDAapproval to treat a specific race—are…