Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century

Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century
by Dorothy Roberts
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Publication Date: September 4, 2012

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Review & Description

Featured on The Tavis Smiley Show and named one of the ten best black nonfiction books of 2011 by AFRO.com, Fatal Invention is Aa provocative analysis” (Nature) of race, science, and politics by leading legal scholar and social critic Dorothy Roberts. It examines how the archaic belief system underlying the concept of raceArevived by purportedly cutting-edge scienceAundermines a just society and promotes continuing inequality.

AAlarming but not alarmist, controversial but evidential, impassioned but rational” (Publishers Weekly, starred review), Fatal Invention exposes the falseness of the biological concept of raceAused in the past to divide humans and justify prejudice and used today to enable everything from the race-targeted therapies developed in the pharmaceutical industry and stop-and-frisks that disproportionately target African Americans to a proliferation of for-profit ancestry-testing services.

Called Avitally important” and Aa massive achievement” by Race and the Law, AFatal Invention devastatingly counters any argument that can be made for a racial view of genetics” (The Brooklyn Rail).

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #179946 in Books
• Published on: 2012-09-04
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 400 pages