Obasogie and Jesudason at "Transforming Race"
Posted by Jesse Reynolds March 2, 2010
Biopolitical Times
Next week, the Kirwan Institute for Study of Race and Ethnicity at The Ohio State University will host a conference, Transforming Race: Crisis and Opportunity in the age of Obama. Among others, CGS Senior Fellow and Biopolitical Times blogger Osagie Obasogie and Sujatha Jesudason, executive director of Generations Ahead will speak. Leading up to next week's event, Jesudason wrote on race and genetics and the Institute's blog, Race-Talk. She concluded:
As racial justice advocates, we need to be both deeply involved in the fight to ensure that a new discourse of race = genetics does not gain scientific, social or political legitimacy, as much as we need to ensure that we maintain the moral and ethical high ground when talking about race, gender and genetics. If we are to keep the focus on addressing structural racism, we cannot allow the debate to veer off into the mythical territory of race-as-biology again.
Previously on Biopolitical Times: