Fatal invention : how science, politics, and big business re-create race in the twenty-first century / by Dorothy Roberts.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roberts, Dorothy, 1956-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Genetics--Social aspects--United States.

Genetics.

Racism--United States--History--21st century.

Racism.

History.

Genetics--Social aspects.

United States.

Genre:

History.

Penn Provenance:

Katz, Michael B., 1939-2014 (former owner) (Storage copy)

Physical Description:

xii, 388 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : New Press.

Summary:

This groundbreaking book by the acclaimed Dorothy Roberts examines how the myth of the 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 of 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. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I Believing in Race in the Genomic Age 1

1 The Invention of Race 3

2 Separating Racial Science from Racism 26

Part II The New Racial Science 55

3 Redefining Race in Genetic Terms 57

4 Medical Stereotyping 81

5 The Allure of Race in Biomedical Research 104

6 Embodying Race 123

Part III The New Racial Technology 147

7 Pharmacoethnicity 149

8 Color-Coded Pills 168

9 Race and the New Biocitizen 202

10 Tracing Racial Roots 226

Part IV The New Biopolitics of Race 259

11 Genetic Surveillance 261

12 Biological Race in a "Postracial" America 287.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781595588340

1595588345

OCLC:

797980617