TY  - BOOK
AU  - Roberts, Dorothy E.
TI  - Fatal invention : how science, politics, and big business re-create race in the twenty-first century
SN  - 9781595588340
PY  - 2012///
CY  - New York; London
PB  - New Press
KW  - GENETICS
KW  - RACE
KW  - RACISM
N2  - 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
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