Fatal Invention

How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-Create Race in the Twenty-first Century

Dorothy Roberts author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:The New Press

Published:11th Oct '12

Should be back in stock very soon

Fatal Invention cover

A decade after the Human Genome Project proved that human beings are not naturally divided by race, scientists are attempting to resuscitate race as a biological category. In this provocative analysis, leading legal scholar and social critic Dorothy Roberts argues that America is once again at the brink of a virulent outbreak of classifying population by race. By searching for differences at the molecular level, a new race-based science is obscuring racism in society and legitimising state brutality against communities at a time when America claims to be post-racial.

“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

ISBN: 9781595588340

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 457g

390 pages