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

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UPC:
9781595588340
Maximum Purchase:
3 units
Binding:
Paperback
Publication Date:
2012-09-04
Author:
Dorothy Roberts
Language:
english
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This groundbreaking book by the acclaimed Dorothy Roberts examines how the myth of biological concept of racerevived by purportedly cutting-edge science, race-specific drugs, genetic testing, and DNA databasescontinues 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 nations leading legal scholars and social critics.