Fatal invention : how science, politics, and big business re-create race in the twenty-first century / Dorothy Roberts.

  • Roberts, Dorothy E., 1956-
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[2011], ©2011
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Description

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.

Publication/Creation

New York : New Press, [2011], ©2011.

Physical description

xii, 388 pages ; 24 cm

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Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

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.

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    Medical Collection
    GN269 2011R64f
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  • 9781595584953
  • 1595584951
  • 1595588345
  • 9781595588340