2017 BNEC Call for Papers
11th ANNUAL BLACK NEW ENGLAND CONFERENCE Huddleston Hall, University of New Hampshire October 20 – 21st, 2017 Deadline for Submissions (August 20, 2017) THE SCIENCE & ENGINEERING OF RACE: Living Through the Archives Modern medical and social sciences have made some extraordinary advances through the exploitation of Black bodies while simultaneously allowing myths of racial inferiority to continue as justification for centuries of enslavement and political disenfranchisement. From the Tuskegee syphilis experiment to the unethical use of Henrietta Lacks’ cells…
