ALONDRA NELSON is Dean of Social Science and Professor of Sociology at Columbia University, where she is also appointed in the Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality​. She is the author of the award-winning book, Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight against Medical Discrimination. She is also an editor of Genetics and the Unsettled Past: The Collision of DNA, Race, and History; Technicolor: Race, Technology, and Everyday Life; and “Afrofuturism,” a special issue of Social Text. Her latest book, The Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation after the Genome, will be published in January.

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