{"id":23173,"date":"2025-03-21T10:49:25","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T10:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/?p=23173"},"modified":"2025-03-23T12:21:13","modified_gmt":"2025-03-23T12:21:13","slug":"international-weeks-against-racism-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/blog\/2025\/03\/international-weeks-against-racism-2\/","title":{"rendered":"International Weeks Against Racism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

International Weeks Against Racism are marked in Heidelberg this year from 17.3. to 8.4. with extensive program organized by Interkulturelles Zentrum<\/a> Heidelberg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To support engagement against racism, Szil\u00e1rd Library brings variety of books on this topic. Books are on display at the Library Corner in Cafeteria, together with promotional material from Interkulturelles Zentrum Heidelberg<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The foundations of this initiative lay in The International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination<\/a> that is observed annually on 21.3., marking the day the police in Sharpeville, South Africa, opened fire and killed 69 people at a peaceful demonstration against apartheid “pass laws” in 1960. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This UN initiative has a significant perspective for scientific community, as even today, scientific racism continues to exist. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Scientific racism is a historical pattern of ideologies that generate pseudo-scientific racist beliefs\u2026.Leading scientists across scientific institutions in the 19th and early 20th centuries were proponents of such ideologies\u201d, describes Vence L. Bonham Jr., J.D., (Acting Deputy Director of the National Human Genome Research Institute).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Awareness of this history, reflection on its impact and discussions about these topics within community are all part of recognizing the damage that science has done to perpetuate inequality and taking steps to move toward more equitable and anti-racist systemic practices.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\n \n The Science of Racism: Everything you need to know but probably don't – yet (Picador 2025) <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n

By Keon West<\/p>\n

In this frank, funny, and meticulous book, a leading social scientist lays out the striking facts we know about racism, how we have uncovered them, and how we can start to fix them: studies and surveys show, time and again, that about 50 percent of people believe that racism is no longer an issue today. <\/p>\n<\/article>\n\n\n

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\n \n Where biology ends and bias begins : lessons on belonging from our DNA (University of California Press 2025) <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n

By Shoumita Dasgupta<\/p>\n

In this accessible, myth-busting book, geneticist Shoumita Dasgupta weaves together history, current affairs, and cutting-edge science to correct common misconceptions about how much of our social identities are actually based in genetics, how genetic concepts are misused and how we can approach scientific evidence in a socially responsible way. <\/p>\n<\/article>\n\n\n

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\n \n The Fallacies of Racism: Understanding How Common Perceptions Uphold White Supremacy (Polity Press 2024) <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n

By Jennifer Patrice Sims <\/p>\n

Accessibly written and full of concrete examples, this book will be of great value to anyone who wants to understand the common misunderstandings about racism that frustrate contemporary politics, classrooms, workplaces, and dinner tables.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n\n\n

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\n \n Is Science Racist? (Polity 2017) <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n

By Jonathan Marks<\/p>\n

Every arena of science has its own set of ethical issues: chemistry and poison gas, physics and the atom bomb, and genetics has had a troubled history with race. As Jonathan Marks reveals, this dangerous relationship rumbles on to this day, still leaving plenty of leeway for a belief in the basic natural inequality of races. <\/p>\n<\/article>\n\n\n

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\n \n Whiteness, Racial Trauma, and the University: Experiencing Whiteness in the University (Sage Publications Ltd2024) <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n

By Harshad Keval<\/p>\n

This book unravels how liberal progressive \u2018acts\u2019 of universities that have adopted new roles as \u2018anti-racist\u2019 and \u2018decolonial\u2019 beacons of hope, actually hide a much deeper racialised logic of whiteness-framed structural narcissism, producing insidiously powerful and difficult to trace forms of racialised harm.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n\n\n

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\n \n Antiracist by design : reimagining applied behavioral science (The MIT Press 2024) <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n

By Crystal Celestine Hall and Mindy Hernandez<\/p>\n

Written for anyone who wants to make the world a more just place, Hall and Hernandez use scholarly research alongside accessible stories (from Mozart and Chris Rock to the TV show Insecure) to illuminate ways we can drive racial justice forward. <\/p>\n<\/article>\n\n\n

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\n \n Racism : a short history (Princeton University Press 2015) <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n

By George M. Fredrickson<\/p>\n

With a rare blend of learning, economy, and cutting insight, George Fredrickson surveys the history of Western racism from its emergence in the late Middle Ages to the present.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n\n\n

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\n \n Who is antiracist? : beliefs, motivations, and politics (Temple University Press 2025) <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n

By George A. Yancey and Hayoung David Oh<\/p>\n

In the summer of 2020 when protests were mobilizing for social justice, the term “antiracist” started getting more traction. This book provides a systematic approach to understanding the motivations and intentions of racial progressives as well as the impact of political ideology on antiracism.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n\n\n

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\n \n The Raceless Antiracist : why ending race is the future of antiracism (Pitchstone Publishing 2024) <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n

By Sheena Michele Mason<\/p>\n

In this books, author Sheena Michele Mason argues that to end racism, we must end the very idea of “race” itself, our practice of racialization, and the attending power imbalances that are part and parcel of race\/ism.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n\n\n

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An overview of the latest book acquisitions in the Szil\u00e1rd Library is prepared using textual description provided by publishers. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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