Journal Club on Race in Science | Race & Opportunity Lab

Washington University in St. Louis, Brown School of Social Work

Bi-Weekly Mondays 12PM-1:30PM CST CST

Purpose of Journal Club

This journal club is an opportunity for a group of individuals to meet regularly to critically examine recent books or articles in the academic literature that includes: the concept of race as a measure of human difference, the intersection of racism and health, or race in the social lives of American populations. This is an interdisciplinary intellectual space in which doctoral students, postdocs and faculty can critically examine racial statistics, ethnicity, and culture in social and behavioral research. Additionally, the journal club is an opportunity for participants planning on using the concept of race in their research to receive feedback on their work (e.g., papers, manuscripts, or scientific aims) and career development concerns.

Book Selection: Graves Jr., J. L. (2001). The Emperors New Clothes: biological theories of race at the millennium. Rutger University Press.

Ways to Get Involved:

Option 1: Participate via Zoom where you will actively engage in dialogue and help facilitate discussion with other members of the club. You must contact Dennis Boyd at dennis.boyd@wustl.edu or register at redcap.wustl.edu/redcap/surveys/?s=YDAFNEH87K

Option 2: Get involved by viewing our bi-weekly discussion on Facebook Live at https://www.facebook.com/HomeGrownStLouis

Journal Club will be held bi-weekly on Mondays from 12:00 PM-1:30 PM CST

If you have any questions, please contact Dennis Boyd (dennis.boyd@wustl.edu).

Spring 2022 Schedule

February 7^th, 2022	Journal Club Overview & Introduction Introduction (pp. 1-11)
February 21^nd, 2022	Part I Racial Thinking: Complaints and Disorders Ch 1: The Origin of the Race Concept (pp. 15-22) Ch 2: Colonialism, Slavery, and Race in the New World (pp.23-36) Ch 3: Pre-Darwinian Theories of Biology and Race (pp. 37-51)
March 7^th, 2022	Part 2 Darwin and the Survival of Scientific Racism Ch 4: Darwinism Revolutionizes Anthropology (pp. 55 -72) Ch 5: Race and Social Darwinism (pp.74-85) Ch 6:Psuedoscience and the Founding of Eugenics (pp.86-104)
March 21^st, 2022	Part 3 Applications and Misapplications of Darwinism Ch 7: Mendelism, the Neo-Darwinian Synthesis, and the Growth of Eugenics (pp. 107-127) Ch 8: Eugenics, Race, and Facsism: The road to Auschwitz Went through Cold Spring Harbor (pp. 128-139) Ch 9: The Retreat and Postwar Revival of Scientific Racism (pp. 140-154)
April 4^th, 2021	Part 4 Biological Theories of Race at the Millennium Ch 10: Race and IQ Fallacy (pp. 157-172) Ch 11: The Race and Disease Fallacy (pp. 173-192)
April 18^th, 2022	Conclusion: What Can or Will We Do Without Race? (pp.193-200) Takeaways and Lessons Learned

Current Book Selections

The Emperor’s New Clothes: Biological Theories of Race at the Millennium

Past Book Selections

Thicker Than Blood: How Racial Statistics Lie

Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life

The Fateful Triangle: Race, Ethnicity, Nation (The W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures)

The Invention of the White Race, Volume 1: Racial Oppression and Social Control

Race and Racism: An Introduction

W.E.B. Du Bois’s Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America