[Sci-tech-public] Conference Announcement: What’s the Use of Race?

[Debbie Meinbresse]

Conference Announcement: What's the Use of Race?

April 25-26, 2008

Center for the Study of Diversity in Science, Technology, and Medicine
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts


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.



Complete details, including speakers, program, abstracts, and other 
useful information are available at <http://web.mit.edu/csd>web.mit.edu/csd.


Debbie Meinbresse
STS Program, MIT
617-452-2390
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