CCEB Seminar-Dorothy Roberts, JD

"How Scientists Invent Race" Dorothy Roberts, JD George A. Weiss University Professor of Law & Sociology Raymond Pace & Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights Professor of Africana Studies Director, Penn Program on Race, Science & Society University of Pennsylvania Dorothy Roberts is the 14th Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor and George A. Weiss University Professor of Law & Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, with joint appointments in the Departments of Africana Studies and Sociology and the Law School, where she is the inaugural Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights. She is also the founding director of the Penn Program on Race, Science, and Society. An internationally recognized scholar, public intellectual, and social justice advocate, she has written and lectured extensively on race, gender, and class inequities in U.S. institutions and has been a leader in transforming public thinking and policy on reproductive freedom, child welfare, and bioethics. She is the author of Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty (Pantheon, 1997/Vintage, 2017), Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare (Basic Books, 2001), and Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century (The New Press, 2011), as well as co-editor of six books, including Sex, Power, and Taboo: Gender and HIV in the Caribbean and Beyond (with Rhoda Reddock, Dianne Douglas & Sandra Reid, Ian Randle Publishers, 2009). She has also published more than 100 articles and essays in books and scholarly journals