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Superior
- The Return of Race Science
- Narrated by: Angela Saini
- Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
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Publisher's Summary
'We can draw lines across the world any way we choose, and in the history of race science, people have. What matters isn’t where the lines are drawn, but what they mean.'
Modern science is pivotal in our understanding of race - not because of the lines that thinkers through the centuries have chosen to trace but because, once grouped, what they thought belonging to these groups signified.
In Superior, award-winning science writer Angela Saini explores the concept of race, both past and present. At its heart, race is the belief that we are born different, in character and intellectually as well as in appearance. It’s the notion that as groups of people we have certain innate qualities that are not only visible but which may also have helped define the passage of progress, of the success and failure of the nations our ancestors came from.
But modern science has moved on from these beliefs, finding reality to be much more complicated. Taking us from Darwin through the civil rights movement to 23andMe, Saini examines how deeply our present is influenced by our past and the role that politics has so often had to play in our understanding of race. Superior is a rigorous, much needed examination of the insidious history and damaging consequences of race science - and the unfortunate reasons behind its apparent recent resurgence across the globe.
Critic Reviews
"In this essential book, Angela Saini deftly shows how science and racism have long been intertwined, why that pernicious history continues to this day, and why 'race science' is so deeply flawed. Deeply researched, masterfully written, and sorely needed, Superior is an exceptional work by one of the world's best science writers." (Ed Yong)
"This is an essential book on an urgent topic by one of our most authoritative science writers." (Sathnam Sanghera)
This is an urgent and important book. It contains a warning: you thought racism might be on its way out of science? You thought wrong." (Observer)
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- Jaz
- 18-05-2022
A depressing window into scientific racisim
A comprehensive overview of racism and how science has been used to justify it in the past and present. Eye opening in many ways, especially in the way considering race in science can have detrimental outcomes. A number of times throughout the second half of the book I wondered if there was too much emphasis on what is only a small minority of scientists.
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- F. Hopkinson
- 09-09-2019
Great book excellently read by the author
Another excellent book from Angela Saini. Thoroughly explores the history of science's misuse in supporting systems of power over truth. Enjoyed her reading of it
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- Anonymous User
- 13-01-2020
Must read.
Must read for everyone. Take what you will out of it, but there is something in reading a book that’s views really haven’t been explained before.... or I’ve just never heard it like this.
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- Charlie Jayde
- 05-05-2023
fascinating and necessary
another boom everyone should listen/read in their lives. this truly unpacks thr sorry state of racism in this sector and was a fascinating and horrifying read in the best way. I came here from the author guest starring on This Podcast Will Kill You.
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- Anonymous User
- 29-06-2021
Good, not great
As others have said, a bit repetitive. Had some really good moments, however, and shouldn't be disregarded. I just wouldn't read it again
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