An incisive, groundbreaking book that examines how a biological concept of race is a myth that promotes inequality in a supposedly âpost-racialâ 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 conceptârevived by purportedly cutting-edge science, race-specific drugs, genetic testing, and DNA databasesâcontinues to undermine a just society and promote inequality in a supposedly âpost-racialâ era. Named one of the ten best black nonfiction books 2011 by AFRO.com, Fatal Invention offers a timely and âprovocative analysisâ ( Nature ) of race, science, and politics that âis consistently lucid . . . alarming but not alarmist, controversial but evidential, impassioned but rationalâ ( Publishers Weekly , starred review). âEveryone concerned about social justice in America should read this powerful book.â âAnthony D. Romero, executive director, American Civil Liberties Union âA terribly important book on how the âfatal inventionâ has terrifying effects in the post-genomic, âpost-racialâ era.â âEduardo Bonilla-Silva, professor of sociology, Duke University, and author of Racism Without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States â Fatal Invention is a triumph! Race has always been an ill-defined amalgam of medical and cultural bias, thinly overlaid with the trappings of contemporary scientific thought. And no one has peeled back the layers of assumption and deception as lucidly as Dorothy Roberts.â âHarriet A. Washington, author of and Deadly Monopolies: The Shocking Corporate Takeover of Life Itself
