Troy Duster, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Troy Duster

American sociologist

Date of Birth: 11-Jul-1936

Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, United States

Profession: sociologist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Troy Duster is an American sociologist with research interests in the sociology of science, public policy, race and ethnicity and deviance.
He is a Chancellor’s Professor of Sociology at UC Berkeley and professor of sociology and director of the Institute for the History of the Production of Knowledge at New York University.
He contributed to White-Washing Race: The Myth of a Color-blind Society (2005). He is the grandson of civil rights activist Ida B.
Wells-Barnett.
In 1970, he published The Legislation of Morality, in which he showed how the moral indignation regarding addiction at the time of the Harrison Narcotic Law (1914) pointed fingers not at the middle- and upper-class users of drugs but at the lower classes of Americans.