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<font size=4><b>Conference Announcement: What’s the Use of Race?<br>
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<font size=4><b>April 25-26, 2008<br>
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Center for the Study of Diversity in Science, Technology, and
Medicine<br>
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts<br><br>
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Race continues to thrive as a category of analysis among state and
federal institutions and in medical, scientific, and social
research. Despite concerns that race is a hollow and misleading
concept, studies of race have produced overwhelming documentation of
inequalities from birth to education, income, crime, punishment, disease,
treatment, and death. Can race and ethnicity be objects of analysis
and targets of policy, to alleviate inequalities, without causing harm by
reifying invidious distinctions? This conference probes these
quandaries by bringing together researchers and journal editors in
medicine, science, law, and social science to explore the competing
interests that make studies of race both feared and desired.<br><br>
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Complete details, including speakers, program, abstracts, and other
useful information are available at
<a href="http://web.mit.edu/csd">web.mit.edu/csd</a>.<br><br>
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Debbie Meinbresse<br>
STS Program, MIT<br>
617-452-2390<br>
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