New Book on Race and Genetics
Posted by Osagie Obasogie May 12, 2011
Biopolitical Times
Science writer Alondra Oubré has just published an ambitious new book entitled Race, Genes, and Ability: Rethinking Ethnic Differences. Starting with what the author calls the “achievement gap in IQ, scholastics, and economic success,” the two-volume set offers a comprehensive look at the science behind modern claims that social categories of race reflect inherent biological differences that explain disparate group outcomes.
Oubré's multidisciplinary approach puts these new biological claims of racial difference in a broader context, and shows how environment and social interactions shape outcomes that many scientists are increasingly interpreting as a product of hardwired fixed differences. Definitely worth checking out.