{"id":59059,"date":"2019-10-18T17:56:40","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T17:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=59059"},"modified":"2019-10-18T17:56:40","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T17:56:40","slug":"race-science-is-not-about-biology-its-about-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=59059","title":{"rendered":"\u201cRace science is not about biology, it\u2019s about power\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imperial.ac.uk\/news\/193488\/race-science-about-biology-about-power\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>\u201cRace science is not about biology, it\u2019s about power\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imperial.ac.uk\/news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Imperial College London News<\/a><br \/>\n2019-10-17<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarthaNahar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Martha Nahar<\/strong><\/a>, Internal Communications Officer<br \/>\nCommunications and Public Affairs<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imperial.ac.uk\/news\/193488\/race-science-about-biology-about-power\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mainImage\" src=\"\/\/www.imperial.ac.uk\/ImageCropToolT4\/imageTool\/uploaded-images\/newseventsimage_1571318551008_mainnews2012_x1.jpg\" alt=\"woman stands in front of microphone and speaks\" width=\"550\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Science journalist and author <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelasaini.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Angela Saini<\/a> tackled the question of why science continues to be plagued by ideas of race.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Angela\u2019s lecture, named after her new book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=58120\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Superior: The Return of Race Science<\/em><\/a>, was delivered to mark <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Black_History_Month#United_Kingdom_(1987)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Black History Month<\/a> at <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Imperial_College_London\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Imperial<\/a>. Organised by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imperial.ac.uk\/equality\/support-for-staff\/equality-diversity-and-inclusion-centre\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Centre<\/a>, the lecture was attended by over 300 people.<\/p>\n<p>In case you missed it, here are our top takeaways from Angela\u2019s lecture.<\/p>\n<p>You can also <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/user-499485249\/angela-saini-interview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">listen to an audio interview<\/a> with Angela Saini below&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imperial.ac.uk\/news\/193488\/race-science-about-biology-about-power\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science journalist and author Angela Saini tackled the question of why science continues to be plagued by ideas of race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2850,2039,8,26,10],"tags":[29802,30375,30374,30373],"class_list":["post-59059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-audio","category-health-medicine","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-uk","tag-angela-saini","tag-imperial-college-london","tag-imperial-college-london-news","tag-martha-nahar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59059","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=59059"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59061,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59059\/revisions\/59061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}