{"id":35999,"date":"2014-03-07T17:09:06","date_gmt":"2014-03-07T17:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=35999"},"modified":"2014-03-08T06:04:13","modified_gmt":"2014-03-08T06:04:13","slug":"fatal-invention-the-new-biopolitics-of-race-and-gender-dorothy-roberts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=35999","title":{"rendered":"Fatal Invention: The New Biopolitics of Race and Gender &#8211; Dorothy Roberts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/crg.berkeley.edu\/content\/dorothy-roberts\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Fatal Invention: The New Biopolitics of Race and Gender &#8211; Dorothy Roberts<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>University of California, Berkeley<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/alumni.berkeley.edu\/about-caa\/visit-alumni-house\" target=\"_blank\">Alumni House<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Friday, 2014-03-07, 17:00-19:30 PST (Local Time)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/crg.berkeley.edu\/content\/dorothy-roberts\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/crg.berkeley.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/2014-03-07_11X17Roberts2_0.png\" width=\"450\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Join us for a discussion with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.upenn.edu\/cf\/faculty\/roberts1\/\" target=\"_blank\">Prof. Dorothy Roberts<\/a>, University of Pennsylvania Law School, author of <em>Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century. \u00a0<\/em>Lecture organized by the group, Politics of Biology &amp; Race,\u00a0a UC Center for New Racial Studies working group, and co-sponsored by the <a href=\"http:\/\/crg.berkeley.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Center for Race &amp; Gender<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/diversity.berkeley.edu\/haas-institute\" target=\"_blank\">Haas Center for a Fair and Inclusive Society<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Dorothy Roberts, an acclaimed scholar of race, gender and the law, joined the University of Pennsylvania as its 14th Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor with a joint appointment in the Department of Sociology and the Law School where she also holds the inaugural Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mosell Alexander chair.<\/p>\n<p>Her pathbreaking work in law and public policy focuses on urgent contemporary issues in health, social justice, and bioethics, especially as they impact the lives of women, children and African-Americans. Her major books include <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=10863\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century <\/em><\/a>(New Press, 2011); <em>Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare <\/em>(Basic Books, 2002), and <em>Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty<\/em> (Pantheon, 1997).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fatal Invention: The New Biopolitics of Race and Gender &#8211; Dorothy Roberts University of California, Berkeley Alumni House Friday, 2014-03-07, 17:00-19:30 PST (Local Time) Join us for a discussion with Prof. Dorothy Roberts, University of Pennsylvania Law School, author of Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century. \u00a0Lecture [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2039,13,8,26,20],"tags":[1272],"class_list":["post-35999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-medicine","category-liveevents","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","tag-dorothy-roberts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35999","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=35999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}