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Fatal Invention with Dorothy Roberts<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Research at the National Archives and Beyond<\/a>
\nBlogTalk Radio<\/a>
\nThursday, 2014-07-24, 21:00 EDT, (Friday, 2014-07-25, 01:00Z)<\/p>\n

Bernice Bennett<\/strong><\/a>, Host<\/p>\n

Dorothy Roberts<\/strong><\/a>, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology; Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights
\nUniversity of Pennsylvania<\/em><\/p>\n

Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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. 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 Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century<\/em> (New Press, 2011); Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare<\/em> (Basic Books, 2002), and Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty<\/em> (Pantheon, 1997). She is the author of more than 80 scholarly articles and book chapters, as well as a co-editor of six books on such topics as constitutional law and women and the law.<\/p>\n