Penn Program on Race, Science, & SocietyMother Jones magazine published an excerpt from Professor Dorothy Roberts's new book, Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World
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The Program on Race, Science and Society (PRSS) is an initiative at the University of Pennsylvania devoted to transformative and interdisciplinary approaches to the role of race in scientific research and biotechnological innovations, aiming both to promote social justice and to dispel the myth that race is a natural division of human beings.
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Hafeeza Anchrum, a postdoctoral fellow in PRSS, received the Marion R. Gregory Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation Award from the University of Pennsylvania's School of Nursing.
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Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families—And How Abolition Can Build a Safer World, by Professor and PRSS Director Dorothy Roberts, will be released by Basic Books
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PRSS Director, Dorothy Roberts published a chapter entitled "Race" in The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story, edited by Nikole Hannah-Jones and The New York Times Magazine 45-61 (Ne