9781595588340-1595588345-Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century

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

ISBN-13: 9781595588340
ISBN-10: 1595588345
Edition: 50852nd
Author: Dorothy Roberts
Publication date: 2012
Publisher: The New Press
Format: Paperback 400 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781595588340
ISBN-10: 1595588345
Edition: 50852nd
Author: Dorothy Roberts
Publication date: 2012
Publisher: The New Press
Format: Paperback 400 pages

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Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century (ISBN-13: 9781595588340 and ISBN-10: 1595588345), written by authors Dorothy Roberts, was published by The New Press in 2012. With an overall rating of 3.7 stars, it's a notable title among other Genetics (Evolution, History & Philosophy, Cultural, Anthropology, Physical) books. You can easily purchase or rent Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Genetics books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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This groundbreaking book by the acclaimed Dorothy Roberts examines how the myth of biological concept of race—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. 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 by one of the nation’s leading legal scholars and social critics.

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