{"id":44549,"date":"2003-10-21T08:11:01","date_gmt":"2003-10-21T12:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=44549"},"modified":"2024-07-01T16:43:45","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T20:43:45","slug":"troy-duster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2003\/10\/21\/troy-duster\/","title":{"rendered":"Sociologist to discuss race and diversity at Bates"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Troy Duster, professor of sociology at New York  University, will give a talk titled &#8220;Colorblindness and the Veil of  Privilege: From Redress to Diversity and Back&#8221; at 12:30 p.m. Wednesday,  Oct. 29, in the Edmund S. Muskie Archives, Campus Avenue, Bates College.  Sponsored by the Office of Affirmative Action and Institutional  Diversity, the talk is open to the public free of charge.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Throughout U.S. history, the debate about how African Americans can  and should best relate to this country has waged back and forth, between  assimilation\/integration to separation\/autonomy,&#8221; Duster says.\u00a0 Martin  Luther King Jr. and Malcom X personified this debate between 1955 and  1965, he says, a decade in which racial integration had a very different  meaning than it does today. In his presentation, Duster explores an  alternative to this either\/or version of assimilation and suggests that  we are now witnessing a convergence of the legacies of the two civil  rights leaders.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Association of the American  Colleges and Universities, and Chancellor&#8217;s Professor at the University  of California, Berkeley, Duster received the 2001 American Sociological  Association&#8217;s Du Bois-Johnson-Frazier Award for lifetime contributions  to the study of African Americans. He has received a number of research  fellowships, including awards from the Guggenheim and Ford foundations. A  member of the National Advisory Council for Human Genome Research, he  chaired the project&#8217;s advisory committee on ethical, legal and social  issues. According to Black Issues in Higher Education,&#8221; Duster &#8220;tackles  some of the weightiest ethical and social issues surrounding the human  genome and identification of genes that may contribute to disease.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Duster has published widely. His books and monographs include\u00a0  (Routledge, 2003), an exploration of the social implications of the new  technologies in molecular biology.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Troy Duster, professor of sociology at New York University, will give a talk titled &#8220;Colorblindness and the Veil of Privilege: From Redress to Diversity and Back&#8221; at 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 29, in the Edmund S. Muskie Archives, Campus Avenue, Bates College. Sponsored by the Office of Affirmative Action and Institutional Diversity, the talk is open to the public free of charge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[224],"tags":[619,12105,7285,10767],"class_list":["post-44549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-society-culture","tag-affirmative-action","tag-africana","tag-race","tag-sociology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44549"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92919,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44549\/revisions\/92919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}