Ayah Nuriddin - Black Eugenics and the Struggle for Equality

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The New York History of Science Lecture series considers African Americans understood and mobilized eugenics to challenge scientific racism.

Fayerweather Hall, Room 513

<p>This talk will discuss the ways that African Americans understood and mobilized eugenics and racial science to challenge scientific racism in the twentieth century. African American physicians, scientists, scholars, and reformers believed that eugenics, along with other political and social activism, offered a solution to racial discrimination by improving the biological composition of the race. Though eugenic measures were ultimately weaponized against African Americans, there were some who believed that forms of eugenics could be mobilized to improve the health and welfare of the race. This talk will examine the ways by which African Americans respond to, reinterpret, and critique the scientific racism embedded within the eugenics movement as part of a larger discourse of black eugenics.</p><h3>Event Speaker</h3><p><a href="https://sf.princeton.edu/people/ayah-nuriddin" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Ayah Nuriddin</a>, Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow at Princeton University</p><h3>Event Information</h3><p>This event is free and open to the public, RSVP to receive Zoom link. All in-person attendees must follow Columbia&#x27;s COVID-19 policies. Visitors will be asked to provide proof of COVID-19 vaccination. Online attendees will receive a Zoom link from Eventbrite. Please contact scienceandsociety@columbia.edu with any questions. </p><p>This event is part of the <a href="https://scienceandsociety.columbia.edu/node/32" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">New York History of Science Lecture Series</a>.</p><p>Sponsoring Organizations:</p><ul><li>The University Seminars at Columbia University</li><li>Columbia University in the City of New York</li><li>NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Study</li><li>The Graduate Center, City University of New York</li><li>The New York Academy of Medicine</li><li>The New York Academy of Sciences</li></ul><p>The Center for Science and Society makes every reasonable effort to accommodate individuals with disabilities. If you require disability accommodations to attend a Center for Science and Society event, please contact us at scienceandsociety@columbia.edu or (212) 854-0666 at least 10 days in advance of the event. For more information, please visit the <a href="https://eoaa.columbia.edu/content/accessibility" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">campus accessibility webpage</a>.</p>

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