What's the Use of Race?: Modern Governance and the Biology of Difference - Google Books

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How race as a category—reinforced by new discoveries in genetics—is used as a basis for practice and policy in law, science, and medicine.The post–civil rights era perspective of many scientists and scholars was that race was nothing more than a social…