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Book

How to argue with a racist : what our genes do (and don't) say about human difference

Call Number

  • 305.8 R9751 (CEN, OSH)

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Publication Information

New York : The Experiment, 2020.

Physical Description

xviii, 221 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.

Summary

The science of race is constantly changing, and you need to change with it if you want to think and talk about race in an enlightened, sensitive, scientifically supported way. Author Adam Rutherford takes us on a tour of the common misconceptions and malicious falsehoods we unwittingly allow to live on, and then he shows us, using cutting-edge genetics, how the ways we've been categorizing people for centuries are almost entirely unsupported by science.

Notes

"Originally published in Great Britain by Weidenfeld & Nicholson, an imprint of the Orion Publishing Group Ltd., a Hachette UK company, in 2020."--Title page verso.

Contents

  • Skin in the game
  • Your ancestors are my ancestors
  • Black power
  • White matter.

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