FYS 101B K. Carroll (FA21)

Essays discuss the legal and moral aspects of stem cell research, debating whether it is necessary, ethical, and should be federally funded.

Researchers commonly ask subjects to self-identify their race from a menu of preestablished options. Yet if race is a multidimensional, multilevel social construction, this has profound methodological implications for the sciences and social sciences. Race must inform how we design large-scale data collection and how scientists utilize race in the context of specific research questions. This landmark collection argues for the recognition of those implications for research and suggests ways in which they may be integrated into future scientific endeavors.

Pathologies of Power uses harrowing stories of illness, of life--and death--in extreme situations to interrogate our understanding of human rights. A thoughtful memoir with passionate eyewitness accounts from the prisons of Russia and the beleaguered villages of Haiti and Chiapas, this book links the lived experiences of individual victims to a broader analysis of structural violence. He illustrates the ways that racism and gender inequality in the United States are mirrored in pathology, plague, disease and death.

For over ten years, Readings for Diversity and Social Justicehas been the go-to anthology for the broadest possible coverage of issues related to identity and oppression from a social justice perspective.