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Virtual Conversation: Race Science in the 21st Century
2021 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Free
With Angela Saini, author of Superior: The Return of Race Science
Free – registration required
The Museum of Science welcomes award-winning science journalist, broadcaster, and author of Superior: The Return of Race Science Angela Saini for a special one-night-only virtual conversation about the murky history of race science and the ways in which it’s being resurrected in the 21st century, how the far-right are attempting to repackage racism, the history of systemic racism engrained in STEM, and how the current COVID-19 pandemic is bringing the concept of racial hierarchy to the forefront of our society once again. An incredibly vital and timely evening with one of the world’s top thinkers and most respected journalists.
![Did you know that April is National Poetry Month? We have you covered with a little Robbins house trivia. Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote a poem entitled Peter’s Field. Peter’s Field most likely referenced Peter Hutchinson, who was the last African American owner of The Robbins House. Peter purchased the home in 1852 and lived with his wife, Nancy, and several of their children in the home until 1868. Emerson described Peter’s farm, and by extension the original area of farmland attached to The Robbins House out in the Great Field like this:
KNOWS he who tills this lonely field
To reap its scanty corn,
What mystic fruit his acres yield
At midnight and at morn?]
That field by spirits bad and good,
By Hell and Heaven is haunted,
And every rood in the hemlock wood
I know is ground enchanted.
[In the long sunny afternoon
The plain was full of ghosts:
I wandered up,
I wandered down,
Beset by pensive hosts.
For in those lonely grounds the sun
Shines not as on the town,
In nearer arcs his journeys run,
And nearer stoops the moon.
There in a moment I have seen
The buried Past arise;
The fields of Thessaly grew green,
Old gods forsook the skies.
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