What's Real about Race?: Untangling Science, Genetics, and Society

A paradigm-shifting tour of genetics and identity arguing that race is at once a biological fiction and a social reality.

Biologically, race does not exist. Scientists have proven that human DNA is 99.9 percent identical. But we know that racism and its structural impacts shape our health, opportunities, and lives in profound ways. What is the true relationship between genetics and race? And how should we talk about identity in science and medicine?

In What’s Real About Race?, sociologist Rin...