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

by Dorothy Roberts Narrated by Janina Edwards

Overview

An 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 concept-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.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

Fatal Invention is a triumph!”
—Harriet A. Washington, author of Medical Apartheid and Deadly Monopolies

“This 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. Magazine

“Masterful.”
—Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, author of Racism Without Racists

“Devastatingly counters any argument that can be made for a racial view of genetics.”
—The Brooklyn Rail

“Alarming but not alarmist, controversial but evidential, impassioned but rational.”
—Publishers Weekly, starred review

“Thought-provoking, well-researched, [and] insightful.”
—Choice

“A must-read for those looking for an enlightened discussion of race in the 21st century.”
—Library Journal

Product Details

BN ID:	2940176432763
Publisher:	Tantor Audio
Publication date:	06/02/2020
Edition description:	Unabridged

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