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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.… (más)
While I agree with many of the arguments presented in this book, I don't feel they are presented as clearly or persuasively as necessary. Definitely as the book progresses, the arguments become clearer, but I found the first section hard to follow with parts unclear. ( )
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
The principal human races presumably emerged as the populations of each continent responded to different evolutionary pressures. —Nicholas Wade, “A New Look at Race and Natural Selection,” New York Times, April 2, 2009.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved BiDil, a drug for the treatment of heart failure in self-identified black patients, representing a step toward the promise of personalized medicine. —FDA News Release, June 23, 2005.
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
For my parents, Iris and Robert Roberts, who taught me that there is only one human race.
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
News stories about race, genetics, life, and death in the first decade of the twenty-first century reflect an ominous trend overtaking the social and political life of this nation.
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
We must choose the other path of common humanity and social change if we are to have any hope for a more free and just nation.
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.
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