Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century

Type

Book

Authors

Dorothy Roberts

ISBN 10

1595588345

ISBN 13

9781595588340

Tags

Reference, Genetics, History & Philosophy, Cultural, Physical, Discrimination & Racism, Biology & Life Sciences, Anthropology

Description

This groundbreaking book by the acclaimed Dorothy Roberts examines how the myth of biological concept of race—revived by purportedly cutting-edge science, race-specific drugs, genetic testing, and DNA databases—continues to undermine a just society and promote inequality in a supposedly post-racial” era. Named one of the ten best black nonfiction books 2011 by AFRO.com, Fatal Invention offers a timely and provocative analysis” (Nature) of race, science, and politics by one of the nation’s leading legal scholars and social critics. - from Amzon

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