Whiteness & Health Roundtable at Graduate Center CUNY

The Whiteness & Health Roundtable is an afternoon conversation with scholars and activists doing work on this area. http://www.racismreview.com/blog/2012/12/14/livestreaming-now-whiteness-health-roundtable-today-at-cuny-graduate-center/

  1. House infection... Tuberculosis... Oh man... Let's destroy houses... #digitalgc http://pic.twitter.com/v4nTMYet
  2. trope of biology intersects with whiteness under guise of colorblindness #HelenaHansen #JulieNetherland #DigitalGC
  3. Staying white requires constant movement; staying ahead of black and brown #HelenaHansen #DigitalGC #whiteness
  4. Bupenorphine marketed to whites: portrayed as opiate dependents, not addicts #DigitalGC #health #whiteness
  5. Test of brain activity: show picture of a waterfall & picture of bag of heroine. This is research that informed drug policy. #DigitalGC
  6. Brain disease model of addiction/neuroscience explains addiction; de-racialize de-socialize it #DigitalGC #health #whiteness
  7. Both speakers unexpectedly "stumbled" into whiteness through study of opiate meds to treat addiction #DigitalGC #health #whiteness
  8. "I'm not racist, it's my brain" Brain not separate from self, but looking at brain can draw attention to beliefs so they can be challenged.
  9. looking at racial socialization, not "who's the racist in the room?" #DigitalGC #health #whiteness
  10. perception of racial content in political ads affects opinion of candidates; measuring this physiologically #DigitalGC #whiteness #health
  11. Neuroscientists + social scientists collaborating to study public discourse about race. #DigitalGC #whiteness #health
  12. Stephen Caliendo & Charlton McIlwain: Whiteness + Neuroscience + Implicit Bias #DigitalGC #health #whiteness

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Jen Jack Gieseking

Geography, environmental psychology, social theories, queer-trans life, feminism, being alive. Visiting Assistant Research Professor, CUNY Graduate Center.

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