{"id":39548,"date":"2015-02-18T02:55:26","date_gmt":"2015-02-18T02:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=39548"},"modified":"2015-02-24T21:58:36","modified_gmt":"2015-02-24T21:58:36","slug":"dorothy-roberts-fatal-invention-the-new-biopolitics-of-race-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=39548","title":{"rendered":"Dorothy Roberts: Fatal Invention: The New Biopolitics of Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.ucla.edu\/centers\/social-policy\/critical-race-studies\/events\/1625\/2015\/2\/19\/Dorothy-Roberts-c--Fatal-Invention-c--The-New-Biopolitics-of-Race\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Dorothy Roberts: Fatal Invention: The New Biopolitics of Race<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>University of California, Los Angeles<br \/>\nSchool of Law<br \/>\n385 Charles E. Young Drive East<br \/>\n1242 Law Building<br \/>\nLos Angeles, California 90095<br \/>\n<strong>2015-02-19, 17:00-18:30 PST (Local Time)<\/strong><br \/>\nRoom: TBD<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.upenn.edu\/cf\/faculty\/roberts1\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Dorothy Roberts<\/strong>,<\/a> George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology and the Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights<br \/>\n<em>University of Pennsylvania<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We are witnessing the emergence of a new biopolitics in the United States that relies on re-inventing race in biological terms using cutting-edge genomic science and biotechnologies. Some scientists are defining race as a biological category written in our genes, while the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries convert the new racial science into race-based products, such as race-specific medicines and ancestry tests, that incorporate false assumptions of racial difference at the genetic level. The genetic understanding of race calls for technological responses to racial disparities while masking the continuing impact of racism in a supposedly post-racial society. Instead, I call for affirming our common humanity by working to end social inequities supported by the political system of race.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.ucla.edu\/centers\/social-policy\/critical-race-studies\/events\/1625\/2015\/2\/19\/Dorothy-Roberts-c--Fatal-Invention-c--The-New-Biopolitics-of-Race\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dorothy Roberts: Fatal Invention: The New Biopolitics of Race University of California, Los Angeles School of Law 385 Charles E. Young Drive East 1242 Law Building Los Angeles, California 90095 2015-02-19, 17:00-18:30 PST (Local Time) Room: TBD Dorothy Roberts, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology and the Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2039,13,8,394,20],"tags":[10148,1272,4106,19103],"class_list":["post-39548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-medicine","category-liveevents","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-dorothy-e-roberts","tag-dorothy-roberts","tag-ucla","tag-university-of-california-los-angeles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39548","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=39548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}