The Myth of Race
The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea

Used this as a textbook last year in Race and Ethnic Relations. Highly recommended. Well-written and documented, and covers all the important issues of why the world would care so much to make race "real" (important) in biology. Extensive sections on eugenics, Nazism, "scientific racism", both in th......more

...In 1950, UNESCO issued a statement asserting that all humans belong to the same species and that “race” is not a biological reality but a myth. This was a summary of the findings of an international panel of anthropologists, geneticists, sociologists, and psychologists. I had high expectations of......more

This book should be required reading for all citizens and taught in high schools, perhaps using an edited simplified text, the Cliff Notes version. Basically the facts are: 1. humans are all one race, a fact that has been established scientifically through genetics and other biological sciences; 2. t......more

Anyone who understands evolutionary biology and genetics knows that the notion of human races is not a biological or scientific one. The author does a good job of presenting the history of race and racism from the time of the Spanish Inquisitions to the 21st century. Read it and see how the racists......more