Troy Duster
Encyclopedia
Troy Duster is a sociologist with research interests in the sociology of science, public policy, race and ethnicity and deviance. He is a Chancellor’s Professor of Sociology at UC Berkeley and professor of sociology and director of the Institute for the History of the Production of Knowledge at New York University
. He contributed to White-Washing Race: The Myth of a Color-blind Society.
He is the grandson of civil rights activist Ida B. Wells-Barnett.
New York University
New York University is a private, nonsectarian research university based in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan...
. He contributed to White-Washing Race: The Myth of a Color-blind Society.
He is the grandson of civil rights activist Ida B. Wells-Barnett.
Education
- B.A. 1957, Northwestern UniversityNorthwestern UniversityNorthwestern University is a private research university in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois, USA. Northwestern has eleven undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools offering 124 undergraduate degrees and 145 graduate and professional degrees....
- M.A. 1959, University of California Los Angeles
- Ph.D. 1962, Northwestern UniversityNorthwestern UniversityNorthwestern University is a private research university in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois, USA. Northwestern has eleven undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools offering 124 undergraduate degrees and 145 graduate and professional degrees....
Selected publications
- "Lessons from History: Why Race and Ethnicity Have Played A Major Role in Biomedical Research," in Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, Fall 2006
- "Backdoor to Eugenics" Routledge, 1990