Fatal invention : how science, politics, and big business re-create race in the twenty-first century
Roberts, Dorothy E.
Fatal invention : how science, politics, and big business re-create race in the twenty-first century - New York; London New Press 2012 - 388 p. ; 21 cm.
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.
9781595588340 1595588345 (pbk.)
GENETICS
RACE
RACISM
Fatal invention : how science, politics, and big business re-create race in the twenty-first century - New York; London New Press 2012 - 388 p. ; 21 cm.
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.
9781595588340 1595588345 (pbk.)
GENETICS
RACE
RACISM