Press Release

Contact:
Doug Stone or Barbara Laskin
651-696-6203

Media Alert
“Racism in the Name of Science”
The Ninth Annual American Studies Conference at Macalester

Who: Harriet A. Washington, journalist, editor, and bioethicist, will give the keynote address “American Apartheid: Medicine, Research and the Historical Prism of Race.”  She is the author of Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present.
                            
What: The Ninth Annual American Studies Conference, “Racism in the Name of Science.” The conference continues Saturday, March 1 with a panel discussion of local experts.
      
When:  Friday, Feb. 29;  7 p.m. – Harriet Washington
Saturday, March 1;  10 a.m. – Panel discussion

Where: Macalester College
Alexander G. Hill Ballroom, Kagin Commons
1600 Grand Ave., St. Paul, Minn.

Contact: Barbara K. Laskin, Doug Stone
Macalester College
(651) 696-6203

Macalester College, founded in 1874, is a national liberal arts college with a full-time enrollment of 1,873 students. Macalester is nationally recognized for its long-standing commitment to academic excellence, internationalism, multiculturalism and civic engagement.