A Post-Genomic Surprise: the molecular reinscription of race in science, law and medicine

Speaker: Professor Troy Duster
Chair: Professor Nigel Dodd

Recorded on 6 November 2014 in Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building.

Professor Duster will analyse the resurgence of the idea that racial taxonomies deployed to explain complex social behaviours and outcomes have a biological and genetic basis.

Troy Duster is Chancellor’s Professor at the Warren Institute on Law and Social Policy at University of California, Berkeley and Emeritus Silver Professor of Sociology at New York University.

Nigel Dodd is Professor of Sociology at LSE.

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