Fatal Invention

How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-Create Race in the Twenty-First Century

By: Dorothy Roberts

Narrated 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.

©2011 Dorothy Roberts (P)2020 Tantor

The content and research

Dorothy Robert's did it again. Wonderful research and wonderful writing. Worthy of a re-read.

everyone should read this book to understand

Everyone should read this book to grasp health, economic and race disparities. it is very well researched. Society needs to be brighter and kinder.

Beating me over the head

This book pursues the same themes repeatedly. This is certainly a crucial topic and appreciating the disparities that exist in our country and maybe this is a feeling due to my position in society. But, this book feels like hours and hours of admonishment for things outside of the control of the reader.