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Fatal Invention is an eye-opening, urgent, and ultimately inspiring expose of the new racial science. Essential reading. --Danny Glover <br> Roberts has issued a compelling and provocative warning: our freedoms are threatened by a new biopolitics that reinforces a false concept of race and turns us into 'biocitizens' whose DNA can be exploited both by the government and big business. Everyone concerned about social justice in America should read this powerful book. <br>--Anthony D. Romero, Executive Director, American Civil Liberties Union <br> Race, like Freddy Krueger, keeps coming back after we believe we kill it. In this masterful book Roberts cogently shows that race has been rearticulated in perhaps more pernicious ways in medicine, biotechnology, and social policies. A terribly important book on how the 'fatal invention' has terrifying effects in the post-genomic, 'post-racial' era. <br>--Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, professor of sociology, Duke University, and author of Ra

Starred Review. Roberts, a lawyer and sociology professor, examines the development and contemporary consequences of race as a political system, bringing science, law, commerce, and race ideologies, virtual thickets of controversy, under one canopy. After demonstrating how, historically, race was literally manufactured by law, and offering an admirably intelligible account of genomic theory, she considers the extent to which the new approaches tend to merely repackage race as a genetic category rather than replace it. DNA becomes a marketable commodity, one consequence being that race soon became the linchpin for turning the vision of tomorrow's personalized medicine into today's profit-making drugs. As she assesses the new biopolitics of race, she argues that Race-based medicine gives people a morally acceptable reason to hold onto their belief in intrinsic racial difference. While pharmacogenomics, epigenetic, and allele are not in most of our conversations, and w

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Dorothy Roberts is the fourteenth Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, where she is the 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 Health Imperative.

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