Title
Fatal invention : how science, politics, and big business re-create race in the twenty-first century / Dorothy Roberts.
ISBN
9781595586919
1595586911
9781595584953
1595584951
Published
New York : New Press, ©2011.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xii, 388 pages)
Local Notes
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Summary
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.
Other formats
Print version: Roberts, Dorothy E., 1956- Fatal invention. New York : New Press, ©2011
Added to Catalog
February 01, 2018
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Preface; Part I Believing in Race in the Genomic Age; 1 The Invention of Race; 2 Separating Racial Science from Racism; Part II The New Racial Science; 3 Redefining Race in Genetic Terms; 4 Medical Stereotyping; 5 The Allure of Race in Biomedical Research; 6 Embodying Race; Part III The New Racial Technology; 7 Pharmacoethnicity; 8 Color-Coded Pills; 9 Race and the New Biocitizen; 10 Tracing Racial Roots; Part IV The New Biopolitics of Race; 11 Genetic Surveillance; 12 Biological Race in a "Postracial" America; Conclusion: The Crossroads; Notes; Index.
Subjects (Medical)
Genetics, Population.
Genomics.