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Fatal Invention : How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century by Dorothy Roberts [Roberts, Dorothy] is a science book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Fatal Invention : How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century about?
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. This groundbreaking book by legal scholar and social critic Dorothy Roberts examines how the myth of race as a biological concept—revived by purportedly cutting-edge science, race-specific drugs, genetic testing, and DNA databases—continues 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 that “is consistently lucid . . . alarming but not alarmist, controversial but evidential, impassioned but rational” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). “Everyone concerned about social justice in America should read this powerful book.” —Anthony D. Romero, executiv
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Dorothy Roberts [Roberts, Dorothy]
- Publisher
- The New Press
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781595584953
- Category
- science
- Subjects
- Anthropology, Medical, Fiction
- Rating
- 4.42 / 5 (146 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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