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Penn MSTP annual anti-racism event
In 2021, MD-PhD Students and the MSTP Steering Committee established the Penn MSTP Annual Anti-Racism event to focus on issues at the intersection of racial justice, diversity, medicine and science. The event features opening remarks from the Program Director, Skip Brass, with updates about MSTP efforts to support and improve diversity, equity and inclusion, and is followed by a guest speaker selected by the students. Info/links to each event below:
Cite Black Women: A Critical Praxis
- Christen Smith, PhD, Associate Professor, Departments of Anthropology and African and African Diaspora; Director, Center for Women’s and Gender Studies, UT Austin, and creator of the Cite Black Women campaign and collective https://www.citeblackwomencollective.org/
- For those interested in viewing the talk, please click here for the recording.
Cite Black Women collective shared some articles and resources for further engagement, including their wonderful podcast!
- “#BlackCitesMatter: Foregrounding a Citational Justice Movement.” by Barbara L. Garcia-Powell and Fred A. Bonner II, Diverse Education, September 21 (mentioned in talk)
- “Female scientists don’t get the credit they deserve. A study proves it.” by Julianne McShane, Washington Post, June 2. (mentioned in talk)
- “The rise of citational justice: how scholars are making references fairer.” by Diana Kwon, Nature, March 22.
- “How Black artists use citational art to build upon one another's legacies.” by jamilah malika abu-bakara, CBC, February 1. (mentioned in talk)
- CiteBlackWomen special article collection in Cultural Anthropology. Volume 37 issue 2.
- Makhulu, A. B. “Citing Black Women: From Citational Refusal to Recognition.”
- Harrison, F.V. “Refusing the God Trick: Engaging Black Women’s Knowledge.” Makhulu, A. B. and C. A. Smith. “#CiteBlackWomen.”
- Shange, S. “Citation as Ceremony: #SayHerName, #CiteBlackWomen, and the Practice of Reparative Enunciation.”
- Smith, C. A. “Citation, Erasure, and Violence: A Memoir.”
- Williams, B. C. “Black Feminist Citational Praxis and Disciplinary Belonging.”
- Smith, C.A., Williams, E.L., Wadud, I.A., Pirtle, W.N.L. and (2021), Cite Black Women: A Critical Praxis (A Statement). Feminist Anthropology, 2: 10-17. https://doi.org/10.1002/fea2.12040
- Moya Bailey & Trudy (2018) On misogynoir: citation, erasure, and plagiarism, Feminist Media Studies, 18:4, 762-768, DOI: 10.1080/14680777.2018.1447395
- Smith, C.A. and Garrett-Scott, D. (2021), “We are not named”: Black women and the politics of citation in anthropology. Feminist Anthropology, 2: 18-37. https://doi.org/10.1002/fea2.12038
Pathogen Matters: on the challenge of writing about one pandemic during another
- Adia Benton, PhD, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Northwestern
Race, Racism, and Genetics: Scientific and Social Issues
- Dorothy Roberts, JD, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights; Professor of Africana Studies Director, Program on Race, Science, and Society
- For more about Dr. Roberts: https://africana.sas.upenn.edu/people/dorothy-e-roberts
- Sarah Tishkoff, PhD, David and Lyn Silfen University Professor, Departments of Genetics and Biology; Director, Penn Center for Global Genomics & Health Equity
For additional information about the speakers, see:
- https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/two-penn-professors-call-attention-use-race-human-genetic-research
- For one of their most recent co-authored pieces (Sept 2020): https://science.sciencemag.org/content/369/6509/1313/tab-figures-data