Fatal invention: how science, politics, and big business re-create race in the twenty-first century, paperback/dorothy roberts

This groundbreaking book by the acclaimed Dorothy Roberts examines how the myth of 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 nations leading legal scholars and social critics.