{"id":38606,"date":"2014-11-28T23:08:41","date_gmt":"2014-11-28T23:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=38606"},"modified":"2015-11-13T01:53:56","modified_gmt":"2015-11-13T01:53:56","slug":"dorothy-roberts-fatal-invention-the-new-biopolitics-of-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=38606","title":{"rendered":"Dorothy Roberts, &#8220;Fatal Invention: The New Biopolitics of Race.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ydj9yOR_0qE\" target=\"_blank\">Dorothy Roberts, &#8220;Fatal Invention: The New Biopolitics of Race.&#8221;<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>McMaster University<br \/>\nHamilton, Ontario, L8S4L9, Canada<br \/>\n2014-10-23<\/p>\n<p>Public Lecture: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.upenn.edu\/cf\/faculty\/roberts1\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dorothy Roberts<\/a>, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology at UPenn, came to McMaster University on October 23, 2014 to give a lecture titled &#8220;Fatal Invention: The New Biopolitics of Race.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In her talk, Roberts examined the myth of the biological concept of race &#8211; revived by purportedly cutting-edge science, race-specific drugs, genetic testing, and DNA databases &#8211; continues to undermine a just society and promote inequality in a supposedly &#8220;post-racial&#8221; era.<\/p>\n<p>Presented by the Bourns Lectureship in Bioethics and the McMaster Centre for Scholarship in the Public Interest.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ydj9yOR_0qE?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dorothy Roberts, &#8220;Fatal Invention: The New Biopolitics of Race.&#8221; McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, L8S4L9, Canada 2014-10-23 Public Lecture: Dorothy Roberts, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology at UPenn, came to McMaster University on October 23, 2014 to give a lecture titled &#8220;Fatal Invention: The New Biopolitics of Race.&#8221; In her talk, Roberts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2039,8,26,842],"tags":[10148,1272,10214],"class_list":["post-38606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-medicine","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-videos","tag-dorothy-e-roberts","tag-dorothy-roberts","tag-mcmaster-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38606","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=38606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43940,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38606\/revisions\/43940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}