Exploring the biological concept of race with Dorothy Roberts

October 23, 2014

Dorothy Roberts, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology at UPenn, will be at McMaster next week to give a lecture entitled, “Fatal Invention: The New Biopolitics of Race.”

In this talk, Roberts will examine how the myth of the biological concept of race — revived by purportedly cutting-edge science, race-specific drugs, genetic testing and DNA databases — continues to undermine a just society and promote inequality in a supposedly “post-racial” era.

Presented by the Bourns Lectureship in Bioethics and the McMaster Centre for Scholarship in the Public Interest, this talk will take place on Thursday, Oct. 23 from 7-9 p.m. in CIBC Hall, located on the third floor of the McMaster University Student Centre (MUSC 319).

Admission is free, refreshments will be served, and all are welcome.

For more details visit mcspi.ca or email info@mcspi.ca.