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

by Dorothy Roberts

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An incisive, groundbreaking book that examines how a biological concept of race is a myth that promotes inequality in a supposedly "post-racial" era.

Though the Human Genome Project proved that human beings are not naturally divided by race, the emerging fields of personalized medicine, reproductive technologies, genetic genealogy, and DNA databanks are attempting to resuscitate race as a biological category written in our genes.

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Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1595588345

ISBN13:9781595588340

Release Date:September 2012

Publisher:New Press

Length:400 Pages

Weight:1.04 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 5.4" x 8.2"

Related Subjects

Race Social Justice Movements Non-Fiction Cultural Discrimination & Racism Evolution Genetics History & Philosophy Race Relations Science

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