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This fascinating critique of race science, from the Enlightenment to the 21st century, is an “easy-to-read blend of science reporting, cultural criticism, and personal reflection” (Slate).
 
“An important and timely reminder that race is ‘a social construct’ with ‘no basis in biology.’” —Kirkus Reviews

After the horrors of the Nazi regime in World War II, the mainstream scientific world turned its back on eugenics and the study of racial difference. But a worldwide network of intellectual racists and segregationists quietly founded journals and funded research, providing the kind of shoddy studies that were ultimately cited in Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray’s 1994 title The Bell Curve, which purported to show differences in intelligence among races.

If the vast majority of scientists and scholars… Keep Reading