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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roberts, Dorothy.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Race--Social aspects.

Race.

Race--Political aspects.

Race--Economic aspects.

Physical anthropology.

Human population genetics.

Genomics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (400 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York : New Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Part I Believing in Race in the Genomic Age; 1 The Invention of Race; 2 Separating Racial Science from Racism; Part II The New Racial Science; 3 Redefining Race in Genetic Terms; 4 Medical Stereotyping; 5 The Allure of Race in Biomedical Research; 6 Embodying Race; Part III The New Racial Technology; 7 Pharmacoethnicity; 8 Color-Coded Pills; 9 Race and the New Biocitizen; 10 Tracing Racial Roots; Part IV The New Biopolitics of Race; 11 Genetic Surveillance; 12 Biological Race in a "Postracial" America; Conclusion: The Crossroads; Notes; Index

Notes:

RCSI Authors Collection.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613786357

9781281605665

1281605662

9781595586919

1595586911

OCLC:

741492559