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

Roberts, Dorothy

ISBN 10: 1595588345 / ISBN 13: 9781595588340

Editore: New Press, 2012

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Riassunto:

Explores the ways science, politics, and large corporations affect race in the twenty-first century, discussing the efforts and results of the Human Genome Project, and describing how technology-driven science researchers are developing a genetic definition of race.

Informazioni sull'autore:

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

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Titolo: Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and ...
Casa editrice: New Press
Data di pubblicazione: 2012
Legatura: Paperback
Condizione: Good
Condizione sovraccoperta: No Jacket