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

by Dorothy Roberts

Book Overview

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"