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 / Dorothy Roberts.

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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.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Roberts, Dorothy E., 1956- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : New Press, [2011]
Subjects:
Race > Social aspects.
Race > Political aspects.
Race > Economic aspects.
Race > Health aspects.
Genetics > Social aspects.
Racism in anthropology.
Physical anthropology.
Human population genetics.
Genomics.
Rasse.
Humanbiologie.
Humangenetik.
Biopolitik.
Genetics, Population.
Instructional and educational works.
Creative nonfiction.
Table of 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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