In this talk Dorothy Roberts discusses a new racial politics that relies on re-inventing the political system of race in biological terms using genomic science and biotechnologies. Her presentation is based on her new book Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century. Roberts, the Kirkland & Ellis Professor at Northwestern University School of Law, is also author of the award-winning books Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty andShattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare.
In conjunction with the Annual Hull Lecture on Women and Social Justice.
Co-sponsored by the Center for Nanotechnology and Society; the Center for New Racial Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara; the Department of Feminist Studies; the Hull Chair in Women’s Studies; the Office of the Associate Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Equity and Academic Policy; the Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor; and the Office of Equal Opportunity & Sexual Harassment/Title IX Compliance.
