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

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 of 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.