{"id":1774,"date":"2012-10-15T19:00:45","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T23:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/?post_type=videos&#038;p=1774"},"modified":"2026-02-09T09:53:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T14:53:20","slug":"dorothy-roberts-race-gender-and-the-new-biocitizen","status":"publish","type":"videos","link":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/video\/dorothy-roberts-race-gender-and-the-new-biocitizen\/","title":{"rendered":"Dorothy Roberts: Race, Gender, and the New Biocitizen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some writers have celebrated a new biological citizenship arising from individuals\u2019 unprecedented ability to manage their health at the molecular level. In this year\u2019s Helen Pond McIntyre \u201948 lecture, Dorothy Roberts examines the role of race and gender in the construction of this new biocitizen in light of the current expansion of race-based, reproductive, and genetic biotechnologies along with neoliberal reliance on private resources for people\u2019s welfare. Roberts argues that science, big business, and politics are converging to support a molecularized understanding of race, health, and citizenship that ultimately helps to preserve inequities.<\/p>\n<p>Dorothy Roberts is the Penn Integrates Knowledge\/George A. Weiss University Professor, the Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights, and Professor of Sociology at University of Pennsylvania. An internationally recognized scholar, public intellectual, and social justice advocate, she has written and lectured extensively on the interplay of gender, race, and class in legal issues and has been a leader in transforming public thinking and policy on reproductive health, child welfare, and bioethics.<\/p>\n<h3>More from this event:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>PODCAST: <a href=\"http:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/podcasts\/dorothy-roberts\/\">Dorothy Roberts<\/a><\/li>\n<li>BLOG: <a href=\"http:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/bcrw-blog\/challenging-race-as-a-genetic-category-a-response-to-dorothy-roberts\/\">Challenging Race as a Genetic Category: A Response to Dorothy Roberts<\/a><\/li>\n<li>EVENT: <a href=\"http:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/event\/race-gender-and-the-new-biocitizen\/\">Race, Gender, and the New Biocitizen<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Full-length video of Dorothy Roberts&#8217; lecture, &#8220;Race, Gender, and the New Biocitizen.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1775,"template":"","tags":[53,17,6,110,42,11,87,20,21],"released":[1465],"class_list":["post-1774","videos","type-videos","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-biology","tag-class","tag-gender","tag-health","tag-policy","tag-race","tag-reproductive-technology","tag-science","tag-technology","released-1465"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/videos\/1774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/videos"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/videos"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/videos\/1774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11300,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/videos\/1774\/revisions\/11300"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1774"},{"taxonomy":"released","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/released?post=1774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}