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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