Arts & Culture Series Shifting Zeitgeist:
Reflections on the Forces Reshaping the Nation’s Understanding of Race with Troy Duster
Troy Duster is Chancellor’s Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the past-president of the American Sociological Association, and he served as chair of the Board of Directors of the Association of American Colleges and Universities. He is the author of The Legislation of Morality: Law, Drugs, and Moral Judgment and Backdoor to Eugenics. In the late 1990s, he chaired the Human Genome Project’s National Advisory Committee on Ethical, Legal and Social Issues. He is also Emeritus Silver Professor of Sociology and former Director of the Institute for the History of the Production of Knowledge at New York University. RSVP: info@ashbyvillage.org or 510-204-9200