Jessie Daniel Ames Lecture

Dorothy Roberts

Northwestern University

“Race and the New Biocitizen”

February 7, 2012, 4-5:30 p.m.

McCombs Center Ballrooms

Refreshments will be served after the lecture.

Dorothy Roberts is the Kirkland & Ellis Professor of Law at Northwestern University, where she teaches courses in critical race theory, genetics and the law, child welfare policy, and family law. She is a prolific scholar on legal and policy issues related to race, gender, genetics, and reproduction; her 2011 book, Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century, explores race-based biotechnologies. Her two previous books are Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty (1997) and Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare (2003).

The 2012 Jessie Daniel Ames lecture is sponsored by the Feminist Studies Program through the Jessie Daniel Ames Endowment.

Questions? Please contact Dr. Alison Kafer, Associate Professor of Feminist Studies, kafera@southwestern.edu or 512.863.1417