Is Science Racist?

by Jonathan Marks

Book Overview

Every arena of science has its own flash-point issues--chemistry and poison gas, physics and the atom bomb--and genetics has had a troubled history with race. As Jonathan Marks reveals, this dangerous relationship rumbles on to this day, still leaving plenty of leeway for a belief in the basic natural inequality of races.

The eugenic science of the early twentieth century and the commodified genomic science of today are unified by the mistaken...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745689213
• ISBN13: 9780745689210
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 140 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.9" x 7.6"