Superior: The disturbing return of scientific racism

The disturbing return of scientific racism ...

By Angela Saini, Wired (uK), 12 June 2019,
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The disturbing return of scientific racism
By Angela Saini, Wired, 12 June 2019
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/superior-the-return-of-race-science-angela-saini

Angela Saini's “Superior” charts the rise of race science that's being enabled by technology and genetics research. Discover the worrying new trend in this extract

This is an edited extract from Angela Saini’s new book, Superior: The Return of Race Science, published on May 30 (4th Estate)

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Angela Saini video interview: The return of race in mainstream science
By Lilian Anekwe, New Scientist, 22 May 2019
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2204322-angela-saini-video-interview-the-return-of-race-in-mainstream-science/

  In her latest book, Superior: The Return of Race Science, Angela Saini examines what she calls the “subtle” return of race within mainstream science. She tells New Scientist that part of the reason she wrote the book was to understand our beliefs on race, and whether scientific beliefs have really moved on since the era of eugenics and the racialised scientific ideas that were popular before the second world war. Saini argues science, and society, has not moved on as much as we like to think. Racialised ideas about who we are still exist now, and we need to understand why.

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Is race science making a come back? Angela Saini: Superior on Apple Podcasts
Kathryn Ryan, RNZ: Nine To Noon:, 19 June 2019
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon/audio/2018699220/is-race-science-making-a-come-back

  Kathryn speaks with award-winning British journalist Angela Saini, whose latest book exposes and ... also an anti racism campaigner, Superior: The Return of Race Science looks at racial biases in science history. Angela Saini has been described as one of the world's best science writers, regularly presenting science programmes for the BBC. She writes for the Guardian, and the New Scientist. Holding a Masters in Engineering from Oxford University, where she was also an anti racism campaigner, “Superior: The Return of Race Science” looks at racial biases in science history. Exposing the lie at racism's rotten core: that inequality is a result of genetics rather than political power, that race is a biological characteristic instead of a social construct.

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Race science: Angela Saini on the creeping resurgence of racism in science [interview]
By Alice Lipscombe-Southwell, Science Focus, 24 May 2019
https://www.sciencefocus.com/science/race-science-angela-saini-on-the-creeping-resurgence-of-racism-in-science/

  We like to think of science as being balanced, accurate, and devoid of prejudice. Yet according to Angela Saini, racism is insidiously worming its way into research.

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Superior: The Return of Race Science by Angela Saini – [review]
Alok Jha, The Guardian, M:on 27 May 2019 06.00 EDT
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/may/27/superior-the-return-of-race-science-by-angela-saini-book-review

  This timely book looks at the toxic origins of racism, which science continues to embrace

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Clive Cookson,  Financial Times, 30 MAY 2019
https://www.ft.com/content/92d2b56c-7ae5-11e9-81d2-f785092ab560

Superior by Angela Saini — are we all created equal?
Race science is undergoing a revival, after its horrific climax in the 20th century

A 19th-century British engraving depicting facial portraits from around the world — and European prejudice © Getty
The image of Neanderthals has been transformed over the past decade. These extinct hominins used to be regarded as stupid, brutish thugs. Now they are increasingly seen, at least in the western world, as intelligent and cultured people whom our aggressive human ancestors wiped out about 40,000 years ago.

The transforming event was the decoding 10 years ago of Neanderthal DNA extracted from fossilised bones, which showed that most living Europeans inherited about 2 per cent of their genome from Neanderthals through interbreeding, while Africans carry no Neanderthal genes. As Angela Saini writes in Superior, her brilliant analysis of race science past and present, the acceptance of Neanderthals as “people like us” is a recent example of a centuries-old European attitude — “casting humanity in our own image”.