Event Description
A Dangerous Idea: Eugenics, Genetics and the American Dream is a 2016 documentary film about genetics, eugenics, and social inequality in the United States. It reveals how public misunderstanding of genetics and the promotion of genetic pseudoscience has served as a rationale for oppression and discrimination throughout modern American history. The film presents the viewer with two deeply held views that are diametrically opposed: the belief that the American Dream of equality is possible to attain, and the belief that genes make us who we are.
Event Speakers
- Andrew Kimbrell, Executive Producer and Founder of the Center for Food Safety
- Joseph J. Levin, Founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center
- Mary R. Morgan, Executive Producer
- Robert Pollack, Professor of Biological Sciences and Cluster Leader of the Research Cluster on Science and Subjectivity at Columbia University
Event Information
Free and open to the public; registration is required. For more information, please email Krystal Cruz at [email protected].
Hosted by the Research Cluster on Science and Subjectivity at Columbia University. Co-sponsored by
