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

Product code: 20763747

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

Product code: 20763747
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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.

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