When

Thu, Sep. 15, 2011
6 pm - 7:30 pm
(GMT-05:00) America/Chicago

Ann Morning, Ph.D., is an associate professor of sociology at New York University. She studies race and ethnicity, especially racial classification; multiracial populations; demography; and the sociology of knowledge and science. In her book "The Nature of Race: How Scientists Think and Teach about Human Difference," Morning explores the ways scientists are influencing ideas about race through teaching and textbooks -- even as the scientific community debates the issue. She also examines how corporations and the government use scientific research in ways that often reinforce the idea that race is biologically determined. Morning holds her Ph.D. in sociology from Princeton University.

This event is co-sponsored by the Baker Institute Science and Technology Policy Program, the Race Scholars at the Kinder Institute for Urban Research and the Department of Sociology at Rice University.

When

Thu, Sep. 15, 2011
6 pm - 7:30 pm
(GMT-05:00) America/Chicago