“Fatal Invention is a triumph! Race has always been an ill-defined amalgam of medical and cultural bias, thinly overlaid with the trappings of contemporary scientific thought. And no one has peeled back the layers of assumption and deception as lucidly as Dorothy Roberts.”

— Harriet A. Washington, author of and Deadly Monopolies: The Shocking Corporate Takeover of Life Itself

“A terribly important book on how the 'fatal invention' has terrifying effects in the post-genomic, 'post-racial' era.”

— Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, professor of sociology, Duke University, and author of Racism Without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States

“is consistently lucid . . . alarming but not alarmist, controversial but evidential, impassioned but rational”

— Publishers Weekly, starred review

“Everyone concerned about social justice in America should read this powerful book.”

— Anthony D. Romero, executive director, American Civil Liberties Union

“provocative analysis”

— Nature