Fatal invention: how science, politics, and big business re-create race in the twenty-first century

Part I. Believing in race in the genomic age. Chapter 1. Invention of race. Where does race come from? ; A special kind of subjugation ; Racial identity on trial ; The instability of race ; Making race seem biological

Chapter 2. Separating racial science from racism. How scientists created a racial order ; The progressive science of eugenics ; The end of racial science? The final chapter?

Part II. The new racial science. Chapter 3. Redefining race in genetic terms. Statistical race ; Is geographic ancestry the new race? ; From segregated gene banks to color-coded genomes ; Where does geography get us? ; The enduring faith in race

Chapter 4. Medical stereotyping. Racial diseases ; Racial profiling in the doctor's office ; The source of disparities ; Difference under the skin

Chapter 5. The allure of race in biomedical research. Searching for the gene

Chapter 6. Embodying race. Life and death in Chicago ; Inequality is bad for your health ; Stress takes its toll ; Unhealthy neighborhoods ; Programming in the womb ; Policy makes a difference

Part III. The new racial technology. Chapter 7. Pharmacoethnicity. The unfulfilled promise ; From personalized medicine to pharmacoethnicity ; Racial markets

Chapter 8. Color-coded pills. BiDil's conversion ; The FDA hearing ; The mysterious mechanism ; As common as Viagra ; BiDil's demise ; The future of race-based therapies ; Back to genetics ; Will we forget about race?

Chapter 9. Race and the new biocitizen. Genetic testing comes home ; Who has access? ; Building better babies ; Obliged to choose ; Biocitizens or bioconsumers?

Chapter 10. Tracing racial roots. We have a race for you! Recovering African origins ; Ancestry, not race ; Am I Jewish? ; Authenticating Native American blood ; Consumer beware! ; Making racial claims

Part IV. The new biopolitics of race. Chapter 11. Genetic surveillance. The surveillance state ; The fallacy of DNA infallibility ; Not worth the cost ; Jim Crow databases ; The test

Chapter 12. Biological race in a "postracial" America. Conservative color blindness and genetic race ; Liberal postracialism and genomic science ; Genes, race, and the emerging biopolitics ; Privatization and punishment

Conclusion : the crossroads.

I. Believing in race in the genomic age

Invention of race

Separating racial science from racism

2. The new racial science

Redefining race in genetic terms

Medical stereotyping

Allure of race in biomedical research

Embodying race

3. Pharmacoethnicity

Color-coded pills

Race and the new biocitizen

Tracing racial roots

4. Genetic surveillance

Biological race in a "postracial" America

Crossroads.