Fatal Invention

How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-Create Race in the Twenty-first Century

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

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A decade after the Human Genome Project proved that human beings are not naturally divided by race, scientists are attempting to resuscitate race as a biological category. In this provocative analysis, leading legal scholar and social critic Dorothy Roberts argues that America is once again at the brink of a virulent outbreak of classifying population by race. By searching for differences at the molecular level, a new race-based science is obscuring racism in society and legitimising state brutality against communities at a time when America claims to be post-racial.

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Utgivningsdatum2012-10-11
Mått149 x 225 x 26 mm
Vikt457 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor390
FörlagThe New Press
ISBN9781595588340

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Dorothy Roberts is the fourteenth Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, where she is a George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology and the inaugural Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights. She is the author of the award-winning Killing the Black Body and Shattered Bonds and is the co-editor of six books on gender and constitutional law. She serves as chair of the board of directors of the Black Women’s Healthy Imperative and lives in Evanston, Illinois.

PrefacePart I: Believing in Race in the Genomic Age1. The Invention of Race2. Separating Racial Science from RacismPart II: The New Racial Science3. Redefining Race in Genetic Terms74. Medical Stereotyping5. The Allure of Race in Biomedical Research6. Embodying RacePart III: The New Racial Technology7. Pharmacoethnicity8. Color-Coded Pills9. Race and the New Biocitizen10. Tracing Racial RootsPart IV: The New Biopolitics of Race11. Genetic Surveillance12. Biological Race in a Postracial” AmericaConclusion: The CrossroadsAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

Fatal Invention is a triumph!”—Harriet A. Washington, author of Medical Apartheid and Deadly MonopoliesThis is the best book of the year If you read one work of nonfiction a year, make this the one.”—The New York Journal of Books[Roberts] dismantles the reasons for using race to determine healthy policy and exposes how embedded social assumptions can shape medicine’s research agenda and distort science.”—Ms. MagazineMasterful.”—Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, author of Racism Without RacistsDevastatingly counters any argument that can be made for a racial view of genetics.”—The Brooklyn RailAlarming but not alarmist, controversial but evidential, impassioned but rational.”—Publishers Weekly, starred reviewThought-provoking, well-researched, [and] insightful.”—ChoiceA must-read for those looking for an enlightened discussion of race in the 21st century.”—Library Journal