<DIV>Featured on <I>The Tavis Smiley Show</I> and named one of the ten best black nonfiction books of 2011 by <I>AFRO.com</I>, <I>Fatal Invention</I> is ?a provocative analysis” (<I>Nature</I>) of race, science, and politics by leading legal scholar and social critic Dorothy Roberts. It examines how the archaic belief system underlying the concept of race?revived by purportedly cutting-edge science?undermines a just society and promotes continuing inequality.<BR><BR>?Alarming but not alarmist, controversial but evidential, impassioned but rational” (<I>Publishers Weekly</I>, starred review), <I>Fatal Invention</I> exposes the falseness of the biological concept of race?used in the past to divide humans and justify prejudice and used today to enable everything from the race-targeted therapies developed in the pharmaceutical industry and stop-and-frisks that disproportionately target African Americans to a proliferation of for-profit ancestry-testing services.<br><BR>Called ?vitally important” and ?a massive achievement” by <I>Race and the Law</I>, ?<I>Fatal Invention</I> devastatingly counters any argument that can be made for a racial view of genetics” (<I>The Brooklyn Rail</I>).<BR></DIV>