Office of Public Lectures @ UW
Welcome to the UW Office of Public Lectures’ Lectures Library, where a selection of our past programming is available for revisiting, either in video or audio format. New lectures will be added on an on-going basis, so check back often!
Office of Public Lectures @ UW
Ann Morning: Reckoning with Race: Fluidity, Invention, and Reality
•
UW Office of Public Lectures
Use Left/Right to seek, Home/End to jump to start or end. Hold shift to jump forward or backward.
The notion that race is a social construct, rather than an objective physical reality, is widely accepted – except in areas that include biomedical research, debates about transracial identities, and sports. In this talk, Ann Morning will dissect the reasons we hold firmly to the 18th-century understanding of race in these domains.