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Fatal Invention How Science Politics And Big Business Re-create Race In The Twenty-first Century
Paperback Edition: 1
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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Pages : 400
Publisher : New Press
Publication date : 2012-09
Subjects: Non-fiction, Social Sciences, Sociology, Cultural Studies