{"id":55238,"date":"2017-11-21T04:08:43","date_gmt":"2017-11-21T04:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=55238"},"modified":"2017-11-21T04:08:43","modified_gmt":"2017-11-21T04:08:43","slug":"myth-of-race-still-embedded-in-scientific-research-scholar-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=55238","title":{"rendered":"Myth of race still embedded in scientific research, scholar says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.cornell.edu\/stories\/2017\/11\/myth-race-still-embedded-scientific-research-scholar-says\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Myth of race still embedded in scientific research, scholar says<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.cornell.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cornell Chronicle<\/a><br \/>\n2017-11-20<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:sek39@cornell.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Susan Kelley<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nTelephone: 607-255-9737<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"550\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/news.cornell.edu\/stories\/2017\/11\/myth-race-still-embedded-scientific-research-scholar-says\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/news.cornell.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/story_thumbnail_xlarge\/public\/2017-11\/1120_roberts.jpg?itok=Q1OWrjeX\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small><a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.upenn.edu\/cf\/faculty\/roberts1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dorothy Roberts<\/a>, professor of law, Africana studies and sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, speaks Nov. 15 in Klarman Hall.<br \/>\n<em>Chris Kitchen\/University Photography <\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>The concept of \u201crace\u201d \u2013 the idea that humans are naturally divided into biologically distinct groups \u2013 has been definitively proven false. But the 21st century has seen a disturbing increase in scientists inaccurately presenting race as the reason for racial inequality, says an acclaimed scholar of race, gender and law.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSocial scientists absolutely should engage with this rise of racial science to work on research designs that account for structural racism and state violence and that confront the racial politics of science \u2026 and unabashedly put racial justice at the center,\u201d said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.upenn.edu\/cf\/faculty\/roberts1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dorothy Roberts<\/a> Nov. 15.<\/p>\n<p>Roberts, a professor of professor of law, Africana studies and sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, spoke on \u201cRacism and the New Racial Science\u201d at the 2017 <a href=\"http:\/\/socialsciences.cornell.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Institute for the Social Sciences\u2019<\/a> Annual Lecture in Klarman Hall.<\/p>\n<p>There has been a long legacy of scientists presenting the concept of biological race as an explanation for racial inequality, Roberts said. European typologists created the idea of race in the 17th century to support slavery, colonialism and the conquest of people whom they defined as separate and inferior, Roberts said&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/news.cornell.edu\/stories\/2017\/11\/myth-race-still-embedded-scientific-research-scholar-says\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The concept of \u201crace\u201d \u2013 the idea that humans are naturally divided into biologically distinct groups \u2013 has been definitively proven false. But the 21st century has seen a disturbing increase in scientists inaccurately presenting race as the reason for racial inequality, says an acclaimed scholar of race, gender and law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2039,8,26,394,20],"tags":[23304,27680,10148,1272,27679],"class_list":["post-55238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-health-medicine","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-cornell-chronicle","tag-cornell-univeristy","tag-dorothy-e-roberts","tag-dorothy-roberts","tag-susan-kelley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55238","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=55238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55239,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55238\/revisions\/55239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}