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Book SynopsisAn incisive, groundbreaking book that examines how a biological concept of race is a myth that promotes inequality in a supposedly post-racial era. Though the Human Genome Project proved that human beings are not naturally divided by race, the emerging fields of personalized medicine, reproductive technologies, genetic genealogy, and DNA databanks are attempting to resuscitate race as a biological category written in our genes.
This groundbreaking book by legal scholar and social critic Dorothy Roberts examines how the myth of race as a biological conceptrevived by purportedly cutting-edge science, race-specific drugs, genetic testing, and DNA databasescontinues 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 that is consistently lucid . . . alarmi
