AFRC307 - Race, Science & Justice

Status
C
Activity
LEC
Section number integer
401
Title (text only)
Race, Science & Justice
Term
2022A
Subject area
AFRC
Section number only
401
Section ID
AFRC307401
Course number integer
307
Registration notes
Registration also required for Recitation (see below)
Meeting times
MW 05:15 PM-06:15 PM
Meeting location
MCNB 150
Level
undergraduate
Instructors
Dorothy E Roberts
Description
This course draws on an interdisciplinary body of biological and social scientific literature to explore critically the connections between race, science, and justice in the United States, including scientific theories of racial inequality, from the eighteenth century to the genomic age. After investigating varying concepts of race, as well as their uses in eugenics, criminology, anthropology, sociology, neuroscience, and medicine, we will focus on the recent expansion of genomic research and technologies that treat race as a biological category that can be identified at the molecular level, including race-specific pharmaceuticals, commercial ancestry testing, and racial profiling with DNA forensics. We will discuss the significance of scientific investigations of racial difference for advancing racial justice in the United States.
Course number only
307
Cross listings
SOCI307401
Fulfills
Cultural Diversity in the US
Use local description
No