{"96751":{"#nid":"96751","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Black History Month Talk by Dr. Alondra Nelson","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe School of History, Technology, and Society is pleased to announce our Black History Month Speaker: \nDr. Alondra Nelson. She is\u0026nbsp;associate professor of sociology at Columbia \nUniversity, where she also holds an appointment in\u0026nbsp;the\u0026nbsp;Institute for Research on Women and Gender. She is coeditor of\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003ETechnicolor: Race, Technology, and Everyday Life\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;and\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EGenetics and\u0026nbsp;the\u0026nbsp;Unsettled Past:\u0026nbsp;The\u0026nbsp;Collision between DNA, Race, and History.\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/em\u003EDr. Nelson will present a talk based upon her new book \u003Cem\u003EBody and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight Against Medical Discrimination\u003C\/em\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E Her talk will address the legacy of the Black Panther Party\u2019s commitment to community health care, a central aspect of its fight for social justice. She\u0026nbsp;argues that the Party\u2019s focus on health care was practical and ideological and that their understanding of health as a basic human right and its engagement with the social implications of genetics anticipated current debates about the politics of health and race.\u003Cbr \/\u003EAdditional information on the book can be found at \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.upress.umn.edu\/book-division\/books\/body-and-soul\u0022\u003Ewww.upress.umn.edu\/book-division\/books\/body-and-soul. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003EThe talk will take place on the \u003Cstrong\u003E1st of February at 4pm in the Neely Room of the Georgia Tech Library.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn honor of Black History Month, Dr. Alondra Nelson (Sociology, Columbia University) will speak about her book \u003Cem\u003EBody and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight Against Medical Discrimination\u003C\/em\u003E.\u0026nbsp; For more information on the book, visit \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.upress.umn.edu\/book-division\/books\/body-and-soul\u0022\u003Ewww.upress.umn.edu\/book-division\/books\/body-and-soul\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"In honor of Black History Month, Dr. Nelson of Columbia University will speak about her book, \u0022Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight Against Medical Discrimination.\u0022"}],"uid":"27332","created_gmt":"2012-01-25 11:56:17","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 01:57:44","author":"Amy D\u0027Unger","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2012-02-01T15:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2012-02-01T16:30:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2012-02-01T16:30:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2012-02-01 20:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2012-02-01 21:30:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2012-02-01 21:30:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"96711":{"id":"96711","type":"image","title":"Alondra Nelson, \u0022Body and Soul\u0022","body":null,"created":"1449178133","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:28:53","changed":"1475894709","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:45:09","alt":"Alondra Nelson, \u0022Body and Soul\u0022","file":{"fid":"193918","name":"bodysoulhp.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/bodysoulhp_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/bodysoulhp_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":24944,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/bodysoulhp_0.jpg?itok=NiKPOg4b"}}},"media_ids":["96711"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.upress.umn.edu\/book-division\/books\/body-and-soul","title":"\u0022Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight Against Medical Discrimination\u0022"}],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1288","name":"School of History and Sociology"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"18861","name":"Alondra Nelson"},{"id":"1452","name":"Black History Month"},{"id":"18871","name":"Black Panther Party"},{"id":"2493","name":"health care"},{"id":"18891","name":"racial discrimination"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}