A Short Course on
Racial and Ethnic Minorities as Research Subjects
Challenges for Research Ethics
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AAAS
1200 New York Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20005
shortcourse@aaas.org
Problematizing Concepts of Race and Ethnicity
Session # 1 October 20-22, 2000
| Friday, October 20 | |
| 7:30 - 8:30 | Breakfast |
| 8:30 - 10:00 | Introductions; Goals and overview of course; Housekeeping |
| 10:00 - 10:15 | Break |
| 10:15- 12:00 | Case studies - highlight issues that will be of concern throughout the next few days of the course. |
| Facilitator: Pilar Ossorio | |
| 12:00 - 1:30 | Lunch |
| 1:30 - 2:45 | The Scientific Construction of Race and Ethnicity |
| Lecturer: Valerie P. Wilson | |
| 2:45 - 4:00 | The Eugenics Movement |
| Lecturer: Reginald Peniston | |
| 4:00 - 4:15 | Break |
| 4:15-6:00 | Skills Workshop. Construction of race/ethnicity (other disciplines). During this workshop, participants should do exercises that examine course participant's self-conceptions with regard to racial and ethnic identities. |
| Facilitator: Denise King-Miller | |
| 6:00 - 7:30 | Dinner and Break |
| Saturday, October 21 | |
| 7:30 - 8:30 | Breakfast |
| 8:30-9:45 | Scientific construction of race & ethnicity. Lecture and discussion: Race/ethnicity in Medicine in the 19th and 20th centuries. |
| Lecturers: Marian Gray Secundy and Reginald Peniston | |
| 9:45-10:00 | Break |
| 10:00-12:45 | Current thoughts on race in genetics and anthropology. |
| Panel: Jonathon Marks, Kenneth Kidd, Fatimah Jackson | |
| 12:45 - 2:00 | Lunch |
| 2:00-3:15 | Lecture and discussion: Sociology of racial and ethnic identity formation (race/ethnicity and power, race/ethnicity as relational constructs.) |
| Lecturer: Troy Duster | |
| 3:15-4:30 | Lecture and discussion: Psychology of racial and ethnic identity formation. |
| Lecturer: Vivian Ota Wang | |
| 4:30 - 4:45 | Break |
| 4:45-6:00 | Lecture and discussion: Whiteness (transparency of whiteness, whiteness as power and privilege, how does a group become white? |
| Lecturer: Catherine Myser | |
| Respondent: Marian Gray Secundy | |
| 6:00 - 7:00 | Dinner |
| 7:00-8:15 | Exercise. Evaluation of a published scientific article for assumptions about the nature of race. |
| Comment: William Bennett, Benjamin Roy, and Reginald Peniston | |
| 8:15-8:45 | Denise King-Miller |
| Sunday, October 22 | |
| 7:30 - 8:30 | Breakfast |
| 9:00-10:15 | Lecture and discussion: Legal construction of racial and ethnic identities (relationships of immigration law, census law, etc. to data on race and to retrospective research on race; also, look at race as relational). |
| Lecturer: Pilar Ossorio | |
| 10:15-10:45 | Break |
| 10:45-11:45 | First Assignment |
| 11:45-12:30 | Topic: formulating a research question |
| Lecture and discussion: The problem of choosing a problem. | |
| Facilitator: Pilar Ossorio | |
| 12:30 - 2:00 | Lunch |
| 2:00-3:30 | Involving the community in formulating your research question. |
| Lecturers: Vence Bonham, Marian Gray Secundy | |
| 3:30 | Adjourned |