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Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-Create Race in the Twenty-first Century
Dorothy Roberts
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Description for Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-Create Race in the Twenty-first Century
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A decade after the Human Genome Project proved that human beings are not naturally divided by race, scientists are attempting to resuscitate race as a biological category. In this provocative analysis, leading legal scholar and social critic Dorothy Roberts argues that America is once again at the brink of a virulent outbreak of classifying population by race. By searching for differences at the molecular level, a new race-based science is obscuring racism in society and legitimising state brutality against communities at a time when America claims to be post-racial.
A decade after the Human Genome Project proved that human beings are not naturally divided by race, scientists are attempting to resuscitate race as a biological category. In this provocative analysis, leading legal scholar and social critic Dorothy Roberts argues that America is once again at the brink of a virulent outbreak of classifying population by race. By searching for differences at the molecular level, a new race-based science is obscuring racism in society and legitimising state brutality against communities at a time when America claims to be post-racial.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
The New Press United States
Number of pages
390
Condition
New
Number of Pages
390
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781595588340
SKU
V9781595588340
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About Dorothy Roberts
Dorothy Roberts is the fourteenth Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, where she is a George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology and the inaugural Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights. She is the author of the award-winning Killing the Black Body and Shattered Bonds and is the co-editor of ... Read more
Reviews for Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-Create Race in the Twenty-first Century
Fatal Invention is a triumph!” —Harriet A. Washington, author of Medical Apartheid and Deadly Monopolies This is the best book of the year
If you read one work of nonfiction a year, make this the one.” —The New York Journal of Books [Roberts] dismantles the reasons for using race to determine healthy policy and ... Read more