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

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What this book knows

Race is not a biological fact but a political technology, and genomic science is reinventing it with lethal consequences for health and justice.

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self-and-identity

Science is the most effective tool for giving claims about human difference the stamp of legitimacy.
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Being black had to be equivalent to slavery, regardless of blacks' status as actual property.
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Both conservatives and liberals have embraced science validating racial difference at the genetic level and biotechnological solutions for inequality.
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Legislators quoted passages from the book during congressional debates on immigration restrictions; detractors were labeled 'Bolsheviks and Jews.'
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Black infants are almost three times more likely than white infants to die before their first birthday.
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The wombs of poor, dark-skinned women have become marketable commodities for more privileged people to rent.
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