Weill Cornell Medicine Samuel J. Wood Library

The Heberden Society presents Ayah Nuriddin, PhD

Submitted by chh4011 on October 2, 2023 - 2:22pm

Seed and Soil: Black Eugenic Thought in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Join Ayah Nuriddin at 5PM EST on Tuesday, November 7, 2023, as she examines the complex and often paradoxical ways in which African Americans imagined the utility of racial science and eugenics for challenging scientific raism and advocating for racial equality. Her lecture will trace how the ongoing legacies of racial science continue to shape African American articulations of racial formation and health disparities, in addition to activism around health inequality.

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