Dorothy Roberts is the George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, where she directs the Penn Program on Race, Science, and Society. The author of four books, including Killing the Black Body, she lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
An incisive, groundbreaking book that examines how a biological concept of race is a myth that promotes inequality in a supposedly 'post-racial' era. Though the Human Genome Project proved that human beings are not naturally divided by race, the emerging...[SEE MORE]