TALK: The 2007 UCSB Diversity Lecture: A
Post-Genomic Surprise: The Molecular Reinscription
of Race
Troy Duster
Wednesday, April 25 /5:00 PM
MultiCultural Center Theater
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Our speaker this year will be Troy Duster, Director,
Institute for the History of the Production of Knowledge,
New York University and Chancellor's Professor, Department
of Sociology, UC Berkeley. Duster was elected President
of the American Sociological Association in 2005 and
received the ASA's DuBois-Johnson-Frazier Award in
2001. The recipient of numerous awards and honorary
degrees, Duster is the author of BACK DOOR TO EUGENICS
(2nd ed. 2003) and the co-author of WHITEWASHING RACE:
THE MYTH OF A COLORBLIND SOCIETY (2003), among numerous
other publications
Sponsored by Maria Herrera-Sobek, Associate Vice Chancellor
for Diversity, Equity, and Academic Policy; Department
of Sociology; Ray Huerta, Director, Office of Academic
Preparation and Equal Opportunity; MultiCultural Center;
New Racial Studies Project; Citizenship and Democracy
Faculty Research Group and the IHC
