Dorothy Roberts

Broschiertes Buch

Fatal Invention

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

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: The New Press
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 211mm x 139mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 470g
• ISBN-13: 9781595588340
• ISBN-10: 1595588345
• Artikelnr.: 35117095