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Dr. Dorothy Roberts, University of Pennsylvania, Professor of Law and Sociology and Director of the Program on Race, Science, and Society
Title: “The Promise and Peril of Biosocial Science
Abstract: Recent developments in scientific fields such as genetics and neuroscience have led to rekindled interest in biological perspectives on social life. While today’s biosocial paradigms seek to examine more fully the inextricable relationships between the biological and the social, they have also renewed concerns about the scientific study of race. Social and biological scientists are designing biosocial models that promise to capture the embodied impacts of racial inequality, but these models also raise the peril of reinforcing existing biological assumptions about race. We urgently need innovative approaches to biosocial investigations of racial disparities that keep a focus on structural racism
