Fatal invention : how science, politics, and big business re-create race in the twenty-first century
(2020)

Nonfiction

eAudiobook

Provider: hoopla

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PUBLISHED
[United States] : Tantor Audio, 2020
Made available through hoopla
EDITION
Unabridged
DESCRIPTION

1 online resource (1 audio file (14hr., 54 min.)) : digital

ISBN/ISSN
9781705218853 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) MWT12833019, 1705218857 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 12833019
LANGUAGE
English
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Read by Janina Edwards

An incisive, groundbreaking book that examines how a biological concept of race is a myth that promotes inequality in a supposedly "post-racial" era. Though the Human Genome Project proved that human beings are not naturally divided by race, the emerging fields of personalized medicine, reproductive technologies, genetic genealogy, and DNA databanks are attempting to resuscitate race as a biological category written in our genes. This groundbreaking book by legal scholar and social critic Dorothy Roberts examines how the myth of race as a biological concept-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

Mode of access: World Wide Web

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