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<div><font size="4"><b>Catherine Bliss</b></font></div>
<div><i>Brown University, Africana and STS</i></div>
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<div><font size="+1"><b>Race Decoded: The Genomic Fight for Social Justice</b></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">Monday, January 23rd</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">12:15-2:00 p.m.</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">124 Mt. Auburn Street, Suite 100, Room
106</font></div><div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div>
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<div><b>Abstract:</b> <span style="line-height:14px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:115%">In 2000 with the success of the Human
Genome Project, scientists declared the death of race in biology and medicine. But
within five years, many of these same scientists had reversed course and
embarked upon a new hunt for the meaning of race. In <i>Race Decoded,</i> </span><span style="line-height:115%">Catherine </span><span style="line-height:115%">Bliss takes us
into the world of </span><span style="line-height:115%">Francis Collins, Craig
Venter, Spencer Wells, and other </span><span style="line-height:115%">elite genomicists to show why today’s
scientists are formulating</span><span style="line-height:115%"> new ways of thinking
about race.</span></font></span></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:115%">Bliss </span><span style="line-height:115%">reveals a
paradigm shift from colorblindness to racial consciousness, both at the level
of science and society. She demonstrates that, as scientists have fought older
understandings of race in biology, they have also promoted a grand-scale
program of minority inclusion based on </span></font><span style="line-height:115%"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">their own
personal knowledge and experience of race. Identity politics is a central
feature of this process for all scientists, even those of the most privileged
racial and social backgrounds.</font><font face="'Bell MT'" style="font-size:11pt"></font></span></p>
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<div><b>Biography</b>: Catherine Bliss is Brown University’s Howard Hughes Medical
Institute Postdoctoral Fellow in Biomedicine, Medical Humanities, and Science
and Technology Studies. Her research examines the construction and
naturalization of race and gender categories in contemporary biomedicine. <span>Catherine’s interests include health
controversies, emergent science, racial identity, and the science of sexual
difference. </span>She is the author of <i>Race
Decoded: The Genomic Fight for Social Justice </i>(Stanford University Press
2012). This book provides a first look at the racial views and practices of the
world’s leading genome scientists, exposing<span> how scientists draw on commonsense ideas, norms, and values about race to
formulate their research.</span></div>
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