{"product_id":"superior-the-return-of-race-science-9780807028421","title":"Superior: The Return of Race Science","description":"\u003cb\u003eThis 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\" (\u003ci\u003eSlate\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"An important and timely reminder that race is 'a social construct' with 'no basis in biology.'\" --\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAfter 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Bell Curve\u003c\/i\u003e, which purported to show differences in intelligence among races. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIf the vast majority of scientists and scholars disavowed these ideas and considered race a social construct, it was an idea that still managed to somehow survive in the way scientists thought about human variation and genetics. Dissecting the statements and work of contemporary scientists studying human biodiversity, most of whom claim to be just following the data, Angela Saini shows us how, again and again, even mainstream scientists cling to the idea that race is biologically real. As our understanding of complex traits like intelligence, and the effects of environmental and cultural influences on human beings, from the molecular level on up, grows, the hope of finding simple genetic differences between \"races\"--to explain differing rates of disease, to explain poverty or test scores, or to justify cultural assumptions--stubbornly persists. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt a time when racialized nationalisms are a resurgent threat throughout the world, \u003ci\u003eSuperior\u003c\/i\u003e is a rigorous, much-needed examination of the insidious and destructive nature of race science--and a powerful reminder that, biologically, we are all far more alike than different.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAngela Saini\u003c\/b\u003e is an award-winning science journalist whose print and broadcast work has appeared on the BBC and in the \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew Scientist\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWired\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eEconomist\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eScience\u003c\/i\u003e. A former Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT, she won the American Association for the Advancement of Science's Kavli Science Journalism gold award in 2015. Saini has a master's in engineering from Oxford University, and she is the author of \u003ci\u003eInferior: How Science Got Women Wrong and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGeek Nation: How Indian Science Is Taking Over the World\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Beacon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50705003413778,"sku":"9780807028421","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d1b4941e-4fc9-438e-9fff-559f1066bb64.jpg?v=1734485295","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/superior-the-return-of-race-science-9780807028421","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}