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

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

41 " race was presumed to be an essential biological category. This is not a happy-ending tale of science overcoming racism. "

― Dorothy Roberts , Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century

42 " Because the children of two people from different races were fertile, Buffon’s rule meant that all human beings belonged to the same species. "

― Dorothy Roberts , Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century

43 " So let me be clear: race is not a biological category that naturally produces health disparities because of genetic differences. Race is a political category that has staggering biological consequences because of the impact of social inequality on people’s health. "

― Dorothy Roberts , Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century

44 " Turning people into "gene carriers" concentrates responsibility on them to manage their own genetic predispositions, shifting the spotlight away from state responsibility for ensuring healthy living conditions. "

― Dorothy Roberts , Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century

45 " For my parents, Iris and Robert Roberts,
who taught me that there is only one human race. "

― Dorothy Roberts , Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century

46 " Race is not a biological category that is politically charged. It is a political category that has been disguised as a biological one. "

― Dorothy Roberts , Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century