Originally broadcast at 10:45 a.m. EDT Thursday, August 13, 2020.
Angela Saini discusses her book “Superior: The Return of Race Science.”
Saini is an award-winning science journalist, author and broadcaster. Her latest book, Superior: The Return of Race Science, tells the disturbing story of the persistent thread of belief in biological racial differences, and was a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize and the Foyles Book of the Year.
This program is made possible by program sponsor Allegheny Health Network and the G. Thomas and Kathleen Harrick Lectureship Endowment.
About Chautauqua Institution: Chautauqua Institution is a community on the shores of Chautauqua Lake in southwestern New York state that comes alive each summer with a unique mix of fine and performing arts, lectures, interfaith worship and programs, and recreational activities. As a community, we celebrate, encourage and study the arts and treat them as integral to all of learning, and we convene the critical conversations of the day to advance understanding through civil dialogue. CHQ Assembly is the online expression of Chautauqua Institution's mission.
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Originally broadcast at 10:45 a.m. EDT Thursday, August 6, 2020.
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