BSTP-Sponsored Reparations Speaker Series (RSS): "Systemic Racism and U.S. Health Care"

Dr. Joe Feagin, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor at Texas A&M University in the Department of Sociology, will be giving the first BSTP-Sponsored Reparations Speaker Series (RSS) seminar. His talk is entitled, "Systemic Racism and US Health Care". The seminar is hosted by the Department of Molecular Psychiatry. Registration is required and ZOOM information will be sent to registrants a day before the seminar. Please see Dr. Feagin's full bio below.

Dr. Joe Feagin is Distinguished Professor and Ella C. McFadden Professor in sociology at Texas A & M University. He has done much internationally recognized research on U.S. racism, sexism, and political economy issues. He has written or co-written 74 scholarly books and 200-plus scholarly articles in his social science areas. His books include Systemic Racism (Routledge 2006); White Party, White Government (Routledge 2012); Latinos Facing Racism (Routledge 2014, with J. Cobas); How Blacks Built America (Routledge 2015); Elite White Men Ruling (Routledge 2017, with K. Ducey); Racist America (4th ed., Routledge 2019, with K. Ducey); Rethinking Diversity Frameworks in Higher Education (Routledge, 2020, with E. Chun); and The White Racial Frame (3rd ed., Routledge 2020). He is the recipient of a 2012 Soka Gakkai International-USA Social Justice Award, the 2013 American Association for Affirmative Action’s Arthur Fletcher Lifetime Achievement Award, and three major American Sociological Association awards: W. E. B. Du Bois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award, the Cox-Johnson-Frazier Award (for research in the African American scholarly tradition), and the Public Understanding of Sociology Award. He was the 1999-2000 president of the American Sociological Association.