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

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Roberts, Dorothy E., 1956-

Contributor:

• ProQuest ebook central.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Race--Social aspects.
• Race--Political aspects.
• Race--Economic aspects.
• Physical anthropology.
• Human population genetics.
• Genomics.
• Genetics, Population.
• Race.

Medical Subjects:

• Genetics, Population.
• Genomics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 388 pages.)

Place of Publication:

New York : New Press, [2011]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Controversial biological concepts of race have long played a role in US politics. Roberts (Northwestern U. School of Law; Institute for Policy Research) examines how current genomic science and biotechnologies are being leveraged to maintain the racial sociopolitical order. Despite the Human Genome Project's demonstration that race cannot be identified at the genetic level, she argues that race is being redefined at this level by government policies and pharmaceutical marketing that reinforce arbitrary racial categories and stereotypes with adverse consequences. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

• I. Believing in race in the genomic age
• Invention of race
• Separating racial science from racism
• 2. The new racial science
• Redefining race in genetic terms
• Medical stereotyping
• Allure of race in biomedical research
• Embodying race
• 3. Pharmacoethnicity
• Color-coded pills
• Race and the new biocitizen
• Tracing racial roots
• 4. Genetic surveillance
• Biological race in a "postracial" America
• Crossroads.

Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
• Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

• 9781595586919
• 1595586911

Publisher Number:

99984842001

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.