Fatal Invention

by Roberts, Dorothy

• ISBN13: 9781595588340
• ISBN10: 1595588345
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-09-04
• Publisher: Two Rivers Distribution

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Dorothy Roberts is the fourteenth Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, where she is the 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 Health Imperative and lives in Evanston, Illinois.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Believing in Race in the Genomic Age	p. 1
The Invention of Race	p. 3
Separating Racial Science from Racism	p. 26
The New Racial Science	p. 55
Redefining Race in Genetic Terms	p. 57
Medical Stereotyping	p. 81
The Allure of Race in Biomedical Research	p. 104
Embodying Race	p. 123
The New Racial Technology	p. 147
Pharmacoethnicity	p. 149
Color-Coded Pills	p. 168
Race and the New Biocitizen	p. 202
Tracing Racial Roots	p. 226
The New Biopolitics of Race	p. 259
Genetic Surveillance	p. 261
Biological Race in a "Postracial" America	p. 287
Conclusion: The Crossroads	p. 309
Acknowledgments	p. 313
Notes	p. 317
Index	p. 372
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