Fatal invention : how science, politics, and big business re-create race in the twenty-first century / Dorothy Roberts.
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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New York :
New Press,
[2011]
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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.