Fatal Invention How Science, Politics, And Big Business Re-Create Race In The Twenty-First Century

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  • Author: Roberts, Dorothy
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    Recorded Books, Inc.

    Summary:

    This groundbreaking book by the acclaimed Dorothy Roberts examines how the myth of biological concept of race-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 by one of the nation's leading legal scholars and social critics.

    Genre: Political science, Science
    Original Publisher: New York , The New Press
    Language(s): English
    ISBN:

    9781595586919

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Recorded Books, Inc.

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This groundbreaking book by the acclaimed Dorothy Roberts examines how the myth of biological concept of race-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 by one of the nation's leading legal scholars and social critics.

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Political science
Science
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New York

The New Press

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