Fatal Invention

Author: Dorothy Roberts
Stars: 4
Review by: kayaker
Dorothy Roberts, a law and sociology professor at UPenn is compelling in her evidence that our world is still highly racialized. Her cornerstone is the science of genomics and points to evidence that scientific rationale enables us to accept this racialized world even after the findings of the Human Genome Project. The validation of a biological division of races is countered by Roberts' argument that race is political, and, in fact, there is only one human race without division by skin tone. She brings the reader through the history of race in an abbreviated method followed by medical stereotyping, genetic surveillance, and the continued and enforced concept of biological race through the scientific and pharma worlds. Her advice to the geneticists? Explore the commonalities of the human race, not the differences as there are very few.