How to Argue With a Racist: What Our Genes Do (and Don't) Say About Human Difference

Race is not a biological reality. Racism thrives on our not knowing this.



Racist pseudoscience is on the rise-fueling hatred, feeding nationalism, and seeping into our discourse on everything from sports to intelligence. Even the well-intentioned repeat stereotypes based on "science," because cutting-edge genetics are hard to grasp-and all too easy to distort. Paradoxically, misconceptions are multiplying amid today's unprecedented surge of research on human genetics. We've never had a clear...