Fatal invention : how science, politics, and big business re-create race in the twenty-first century / Dorothy Roberts.
By: Roberts, Dorothy E.
New York : New Press, 2011Description: xii, 388 pages ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781595588340.Subject(s): Race -- Social aspects | Race -- Political aspects | Race -- Economic aspects | Physical anthropology | Genetics, Population | GenomicsGenre/Form: Print books.| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
I. Believing in race in the genomic age -- Invention of race -- Separating racial science from racism -- 2. The new racial science -- Redefining race in genetic terms -- Medical stereotyping -- Allure of race in biomedical research -- Embodying race -- 3. Pharmacoethnicity -- Color-coded pills -- Race and the new biocitizen -- Tracing racial roots -- 4. Genetic surveillance -- Biological race in a "postracial" America -- Crossroads.
Explores the ways science, politics, and large corporations affect race in the twenty-first century, discussing the efforts and results of the Human Genome Project, and describing how technology-driven science researchers are developing a genetic definition of race.