Strange fruit
Subtitle: why both sides are wrong in the race debate
By: Kenan Malik
Edition: 1st trade paperback ed.
Publisher: Oneworld
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 341
ISBN-13: 9781851686650
Copyright date: 2008
Subjects: Race relations; Relations raciales; Group identity; Race; Identité collective; Multiculturalisme; Multiculturalism
Description: Debates about race are back and they're only getting bigger. There has recently been a massive upsurge in scientific racial research. The US government has licensed a heart drug to be used only on African Americans. A genetic study claims that Jews are more intelligent because their history of financial occupations favored genes associated with cleverness. Malik argues that this rise in racial ideas is paradoxically due to the efforts of liberal anti-racism.
Notes: First published: One World Publications, 2008.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword: Race, science and James Watson; title: The people's genome; title: Should science be colour-blind?; title: There be monsters; title: Enlightened man; title: The romance of type; title: To make an accomplice of nature; title: The burden of culture; title: Who owns knowledge?; title: Ancient race wars and modern race science; title: The end of Utopia and the return of race.