February 2010 Events
Troy Duster
Chancellor's Professor of Sociology, UC Berkeley
Director of the Institute for the History of the Production of Knowledge at NYU
Wednesday, February 10th, 2010
Race in a Post-Genomic Era versus Genomics in a Post-Racial Era
12:00 - 1:30 pm
Kennedy Commons
Whitewashing Diversity in Academia: What's Behind the Strong Resistance to Multi-Culturalism?
5:30 - 7:00 pm
California Mission Room, Benson Center
Troy Duster earned his B.S. degree in journalism from University of California, Los Angeles and an M.A. degree and a Ph.D. in sociology from Northwestern University.
Duster became professor of sociology and Director of the Institute for the History of the Production of Knowledge at New York University. He is also the Chancellor's Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has taught since 1970. In 2004, he served a one-year term as President of the American Sociological Association. Duster's research and writing have ranged across a variety of subject areas: the sociology of law, science, deviance, inequality, race and education. In 1970, his first book, The Legislation of Morality: Drugs, Crime, and Law became a classic in the drug field.
Duster is co-author of Whitewashing Race: The Myth of a Color-Blind Society (2003), which won the Benjamin Hooks Award and was a finalist for the C. Wright Mills Award in 2004. Among his other awards are a Guggenheim Fellowship at the London School of Economics; an honorary Doctor of Letters from Williams College; and the Dubois-Johnson-Frazier Award from the American Sociological Association. With his siblings, Duster has established the Ida B. Wells Foundation, which gives awards to journalists and researchers working in Wells' tradition of writing and speaking out for civil rights, civil liberties and social justice.
Co-sponsored by the Office for Multicultural Learning-Office of the Provost, the Biology Department, the University Council on Inclusive Excellence, the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, and the School of Education.
Difficult Dialogue
Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Title: TBA
Time: TBA
Location: TBA
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