Join the IUCC DEI Book Club on starting September 15th for our next book Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-Create Race in the Twenty-First Century by Dorothy Roberts.
Tuesdays from 9-10:30 am
Though the Human Genome Project proved that human beings are not naturally divided by race, the emerging fields of personalized medicine, reproductive technologies, genetic genealogy, and DNA databanks are attempting to resuscitate race as a biological category written in our genes.
This groundbreaking book by legal scholar and social critic Dorothy Roberts examines how the myth of race as a biological concept―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.
Reading Schedule:
September 15 Preface - Chapter 2
September 22 Chapters 3-4
September 29 Chapters 5-6
October 6 Chapters 7-8
October 13 Chapters 9-10
October 20 Chapters 11- Conclusion
The IUCC DEI Book Club meets Tuesdays from 9-10:30 am. All are welcome to join! For information, please email us at: deibookclub@iucc.org