Workshop Series on Race, Health, and Science - Speaker Mical Raz

[Baldy Center]

Event schedule and format subject to change, please check The Baldy Center event website for updates and registration: http://www.buffalo.edu/baldycenter/events/calendar.html

Humanities Institute Science Studies Workshop series on Race, Health, and Science
Co-sponsored by the Baldy Center


Mical Raz, PhD (Charles E. and Dale L. Phelps Professor in Public Policy and Health, Department of History, University of Rochester, and Clinical Medicine, Hospitalist Division, University of Rochester Medical Center)

"Fixing Parents or Fixing Poverty? Lessons From Child Welfare Policy History"

March 10, 2022
509 O'Brian Hall and via Zoom; 4:00pm
Zoom registration here.

Abstract: Why are racially unequal surveillance, policing, and child removal so central to the American child welfare system? Distinguished historian and physician Mical Raz explores the origins and development of the system and offers "history lessons" on how to imagine better ways to support families. For more on Dr. Raz's work, see her book Abusive Policies: How the American Child Welfare System Lost Its Way (UNC Press, 2020).
Co-sponsored by the UB Departments of Global Gender and Sexuality Studies, History, and Sociology; the Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy; the Center for Medical Humanities at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences; the UB Community Health Equity Research Institute; the UB Gender Studies Institute; and the UB School of Social Work