A Post-Genomic Surprise: the molecular reinscription of race in science, law and medicine

Contributor(s): Professor Troy Duster | Professor Duster will analyse the resurgence of the idea that racial taxonomies deployed to explain complex social behaviours and outcomes have a biological and genetic basis. Troy Duster is Chancellor’s Professor at the Warren Institute on Law and Social Policy at University of California, Berkeley and Emeritus Silver Professor of Sociology at New York University. Nigel Dodd is Professor of Sociology at LSE. The BJS (@SociologyLens), (@LSESociology) is committed to publishing high quality research that reflects the best standards of scholarship, appeals to the widest possible sociological audience, and represents the cutting-edge of the discipline world-wide. Credits: Tom Sturdy (Audio Post-Production), LSE AV Services (Audio Recording).