{"id":26771,"date":"2012-12-02T03:14:12","date_gmt":"2012-12-02T03:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=26771"},"modified":"2012-12-02T03:14:12","modified_gmt":"2012-12-02T03:14:12","slug":"biology-race-and-politics-explored-in-upcoming-chancellor%e2%80%99s-lecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=26771","title":{"rendered":"Biology, race and politics explored in upcoming Chancellor\u2019s Lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"

Biology, race and politics explored in upcoming Chancellor\u2019s Lecture<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Vanderbilt News<\/a>
\nVanderbilt University<\/a>
\n2012-10-10<\/p>\n

Kara Furlong<\/strong><\/p>\n

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?
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\nDorothy Roberts<\/a>, the Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor<\/a> at the University of Pennsylvania, will explore this issue in an upcoming Chancellor\u2019s Lecture<\/a> at Vanderbilt University. Her talk, titled \u201cFatal Invention: The New Biopolitics of Race<\/a>,\u201d is scheduled from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 30, in Vanderbilt\u2019s Sarratt Cinema…<\/p>\n

…Roberts is the author of Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century<\/a><\/em>. A book signing and reception will precede her lecture from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. in the Sarratt Cinema Lobby.
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\nAn acclaimed scholar of race, gender and the law, Roberts pored over scores of scientific studies and interviewed dozens of geneticists whose work claims that race is visible in our genes. As a result, biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies are tailoring medications and other patented products to treat illnesses seemingly prevalent among certain populations.
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\nRoberts argues that race is and always has been a political system, that health disparities exist because of social inequalities, and to further the myth that race is a biological category does irreparable damage to social progress in the United States…<\/strong><\/p>\n

…In July 2012, Roberts became the 14th <\/strong>Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor<\/strong><\/a> at the University of Pennsylvania with joint appointments in the Department of Sociology and the Law School, where she is the inaugural Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mosell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights.<\/strong> From 1998 to 2012, she was a professor of law, African American studies and sociology at Northwestern University…<\/p>\n

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Biology, race and politics explored in upcoming Chancellor\u2019s 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? \u00a0 Dorothy Roberts, the Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor at the University […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2039,8,20],"tags":[12967,10148,1272,12966,12950,5707],"class_list":["post-26771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-health-medicine","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-chancellors-lecture","tag-dorothy-e-roberts","tag-dorothy-roberts","tag-kara-furlong","tag-vanderbilt-news","tag-vanderbilt-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}