Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-Create Race in the Twenty-First Century

by Dorothy Roberts The New Press 9/4/2012, paperback SKU: 9781595588340   This groundbreaking book by the acclaimed Dorothy Roberts examines how the myth of the biological concept of race--revived by purportedly cutting-edge science, race-specific drugs, genetic testing, and DNA databases--continues to undermine a just society and promote inequality in a supposedly "post-racial" era. Named one of the ten best black nonfiction books 2011 by AFRO.com, Fatal Invention offers a timely and "provocative analysis" ("Nature") of race, science, and politics by one of the nation's leading legal scholars and social critics. Reviews: " Fatal Invention is a triumph!" --Harriet A. Washington, author of Medical Apartheid and Deadly Monopolies "A must-read for those looking for an enlightened discussion of race in the 21st century." -- Library Journal "[Roberts] dismantles the reasons for using race to determine healthy policy and exposes how embedded social assumptions can shape medicine's research