{"id":34999,"date":"2013-12-10T18:54:35","date_gmt":"2013-12-10T18:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=34999"},"modified":"2014-02-12T08:03:49","modified_gmt":"2014-02-12T08:03:49","slug":"colloquium-blinded-by-sight-seeing-race-through-the-eyes-of-the-blind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=34999","title":{"rendered":"Colloquium: Blinded by Sight: Seeing Race Through the Eyes of the Blind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/sociology.sas.upenn.edu\/content\/osagie-k-obasogie-professor-law-university-california\" target=\"_blank\">Colloquium: Blinded by Sight: Seeing Race Through the Eyes of the Blind<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>University of Pennsylvania<br \/>\n103 McNeil Building<br \/>\n3718 Locust Walk<br \/>\nPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6299<br \/>\nWednesday, 2014-01-29, 12:00-13:00 EST (Local Time)<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uchastings.edu\/academics\/faculty\/facultybios\/obasogie\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">Osagie K. Obasogie<\/a><\/strong>, Professor of Law<br \/>\n<em>University of California, Hastings\u00a0College of the Law<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Professor Obasogie&#8217;s research attempts to bridge the conceptual and methodological gaps between empirical and doctrinal scholarship on race. This effort can be seen in his recent work that asks: how do blind people understand race? By engaging in qualitative research with individuals who have been totally blind since birth, this project provides an empirical basis from which to rethink core assumptions embedded in social and legal understandings of race. His first article from this project won the Law &amp; Society Association\u2019s John Hope Franklin Prize in addition to being named runner-up for the Distinguished Article Award by the Sociology of Law Section of the American Sociological Association.\u00a0 This research provides the basis for Professor Obasogie\u2019s first book, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=32974\" target=\"_blank\">Blinded By Sight<\/a><\/em>, which is forthcoming with Stanford University Press.<\/p>\n<p>His scholarship also looks at the past and present roles of science in both constructing racial meanings and explaining racial disparities. This is tied to his interest in bioethics, particularly the social, ethical, and legal implications of reproductive and genetic technologies. Obasogie\u2019s second book, <em>Beyond Bioethics: Towards a New Biopolitics<\/em> (with Marcy Darnovsky) is currently under contract with the University of California Press&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>For more information, click <a href=\"http:\/\/sociology.sas.upenn.edu\/content\/osagie-k-obasogie-professor-law-university-california\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u00a0College of the Law Professor Obasogie&#8217;s research attempts to bridge the conceptual and methodological gaps between [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,1467,13,8,26,394,20],"tags":[12298,12299,2923],"class_list":["post-34999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-law","category-liveevents","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-osagie-k-obasogie","tag-osagie-obasogie","tag-university-of-pennsylvania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34999","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=34999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}