Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century - Couverture souple

Roberts, Dorothy

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ISBN 10 : 1595588345 ISBN 13 : 9781595588340

Editeur : The New Press, 2012

Synopsis

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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À propos de l'auteur

Dorothy Roberts is the fourteenth Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, where she is a George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology and the inaugural Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights. She is the author of the award-winning Killing the Black Body and Shattered Bonds and is the co-editor of six books on gender and constitutional law. She serves as chair of the board of directors of the Black Women's Healthy Imperative and lives in Evanston, Illinois.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The New Press
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1595588345
• ISBN 13: 9781595588340
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 390
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