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I am sorry but I have to add this 'review comment' because of the amazingly bad 'reviews' being posted here on Amazon.com which appear to represent a politically motivated organised campaign by racists against this book. This is an excellent book which is entirely in line with all current scientific and social scientific knowledge regarding the non-existence of human 'races.' The completion of the Human Genome Project in 2001 proved beyond any scientific doubt what anthropologists have maintained for over 100 years - there are no human 'races.' Over the past 200 years or so, the actions that the myth or idea of `race' has produced include racism, bigotry, prejudice, discrimination, injustice, oppression, conquest, terror, `ethnic cleansing,' and genocide. It was used to justify slavery, imperialism, colonialism, the conquest and destruction of native peoples around the world, the infamous Nazi genocide against the Jews and other supposedly `inferior races' during the Second World War, and more recently the `ethnic-cleansing' in Bosnia and genocide in Rwanda. Today, racism remains one of the most important global human problems or issues, and it has in the past and continues today to cause immense human suffering and to blight the lives of millions of people around the world. That is why anthropologists have argued that `race' represents humankind's `most dangerous myth' (Montagu 1997), and why we believe we have both a scientific obligation to resist and discredit the use of the concept of `race' and a social responsibility to fight racism. If you are interested in the scientific proof of the non-existence of human 'races' and the social scientific critique of this extraordinarily dangerous idea, here is a selection of some of the key texts which, like Sussman's book, debunk the myth of 'race.' Ann Arbor Science for the People Editorial Collective 1977 Biology as a Social Weapon. Burgess. Bamshad, Michael & Olson, Steve 2003 "Does Race Exist?" Scientific American, 289(1): 78-85. Banton, Michael 1977 The Idea of Race. Tavistock. London. Barzun, Jacques 1937 Race: A Study in a Modern Superstition. Harper & Row. New York. Benedict, Ruth 1942 Race and Racism. Routledge & Kegan Paul. London. Berg, Manfred & Wendt, Simon 2011 Racism in the Modern World: Historical Perspectives on Cultural Transfer and Adaptation. Bergahn. Bernasconi, Robert 2000 Race. Blackwell. Oxford. Berreman, Gerald D. 1972 "Race, Caste, and Other Invidious Distinctions in Social Stratification." Race, 13:4, 385-414. Bethencourt, Francisco 2014 Racisms: From the Crusades to the Twentieth Century. Princeton University Press. Biss, Catherine 2012 Race Decoded: The Genomic Fight for Social Justice. Stanford University Press. Palo Alto. Boas, Franz 1940 Race, Language and Culture. Free Press. New York. Brace, Loring 2005 "Race" is a Four-Letter World: The Genesis of the Concept. Oxford University Press. New York. Colman, Andrew M. 1972 "'Scientific' Racism and the Evidence on Race and Intelligence." Race, 14:2, 137-153. Corcos, Alain 1997 Myth of Human Races. Michigan State University Press. East Lansing. Delgado, Richard & Stefancic, Jean 2012 Critical Race Theory: An Introduction. 2nd ed. New York University Press. Duster, Troy 2005 "Race and Reification in Science." Science, 307:5712, 1050-1051. Ehrlich, Paul 2000 Human Natures: Genes, Cultures, and the Human Prospect. Island Press. Washington, DC. El-Kati, Mahmoud 2014 The Myth of Race/The Reality of Racism: Critical Essays. 2nd ed. Papyrus. Fish, Jefferson M. 2012 The Myth of Race. Argo-Navis. Fluehr-Lobban, Carolyn 2006 Race and Racism: An Introduction. AltaMira. Lanham. Fredrickson, George M. 2002 Racism: A Short History. Princeton University Press. Princeton. Fuentes, Agustin 2012 Race, Monogamy, and Other Lies They Told You. University of California Press. Berkeley. Goldberg, David Theo 1993 Racist Culture: Philosophy and the Politics of Meaning. Blackwell. Goodman, Alan 2006 "Two Questions About Race." Social Sciences Research Council. http://raceandgenomics.ssrc.org/Goodman/. Goodman, Alan; Moses, Yolanda; Jones, Joseph 2012 Race: Are We So Different? Wiley-Blackwell. Malden, MA. Gould, Stephen Jay 1996 The Mismeasure of Man. W.W. Norton & Company. Graves, Joseph L., Jr. 2005 The Race Myth: Why We Pretend Race Exists in America. Plume. 2005 "What We Know and What We Don't Know: Human Variation and the Social Construction of Race. "Is Race "Real?" SSRC Web Forum, 25 April. http://raceandgenomics.ssrc.org/Graves/pf/. 2003 The Emperor's New Clothes: Biological Theories of Race at the Millennium. Rutgers University Press. Piscataway, NJ. Gregory, Steven & Sanjek, Roger (eds.) 1994 Race. Rutgers University Press. New Brunswick. Hammonds, Evelyn M. 2006 "Straw Men and Their Followers: The Return of Biological Race." Social Sciences Research Council, http://raceandgenomics.ssrc.org/Hammonds/. Harris, Marvin 1968 "Race." Encylopedia of the Social Sciences, ed. by D. Sills. Macmillan. New York. Pgs.263-268. Harrison, Faye V. 2002 "Unraveling `Race' for the Twenty-First Century." In: Exotic No More: Anthropology on the Front Lines, ed. by J. MacClancy. University of Chicago Press. Chicago. Harrison, Faye (ed.) 2005 Resisting Racism and Xenophobia. AltaMira. Lanham. Harrison, Guy P. 2009 Race and Reality: What Everyone Should Know about Our Biological Diversity. Prometheus Books. Hubbard, Ruth 2006 "Race & Genes." 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Leach, Edmund R. 1975 "Cultural Components in the Concept of Race." In: Racial Variation in Man, ed. by F. Ebling. Institute of Biology. London. Lewontin, Richard C. 2003 "Confusions About Human Races." Social Sciences Research Council, http://raceandgenomics.ssrc.org/Lewontin/. 2001 It Ain't Necessarily So: The Dream of the Human Genome and Other Illusions. New York Review Books. 1993 Biology as Ideology: The Doctrine of DNA. Harper Perennial. 1977 "Biological Determinism as a Social Weapon." In: Biology as a Social Weapon, ed. by the Ann Arbor Science for the People Editorial Collective. Burgess. Minneapolis. Lewontin, R.C.; Rose, Steven; Kamin, Leon 1985 Not in Our Genes: Biology, Ideology, and Human Nature. Pantheon. Lieberman, Leonard 1975 "The Debate Over Race: A Study in the Sociology of Knowledge." In: Race and IQ, ed. by A. Montagu. Oxford University Press. London. Lieberman, Leonard & Rice, Patricia 1997 "Races or Clines?" 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Mukhopadhyay, Carol; Henze, Rosemary & Moses, Yolanda 2007 How Real is Race? A Sourcebook on Race, Culture and Biology. AltaMira. Lanham. New Internationalist 1985 "Black or White? The Origins of Racism." No.145, March. Petit, Charles 1998 "No Biological Basis for Race, Scientists Say Distinctions Prove to be Skin Deep." SFGate.com, 23 February. http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/1998/02/23/MN94378.DTL. Rattansi, Ali 2007 Racism: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press. Roberts, Dorothy 2012 Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-Create Race in the Twenty-first Century. The New Press. Rose, Steven; Kamin, Leon & Lewontin, R.C. 1984 Not in Our Genes: Biology, Ideology and Human Nature. Penguin Books. Harmondsworth. Sahlins, Marshall 1977 The Use and Abuse of Biology: An Anthropological Critique of Sociobiology. University of Michigan Press. Ann Arbor. Sanjek, Roger 1994 "The Enduring Inequalities of Race." In: Race, ed. by S. Gregory & R. Sanjek. Rutgers University Press. New Brunswick. Solomos, John & Back, Les (eds.) 2000 Theories of Race and Racism. Routledge. New York. Sorensen, Eric 2001 "Race Gene Does Not Exist, say Scientists." The Seattle Times, 11 February. http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex/display?slug=race11m&date=20010211&query=race+gene+does+not+exist. Stone, John & Dennis, Rutledge (eds.) 1995 Race & Ethnicity. Blackwell. Oxford. Sussman, Robert W. 2014 The Myth of Race: The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea. Harvard University Press. Tattersall, Ian & DeSalle, Rob 2011 Race?: Debunking a Scientific Myth. Texas A&M University Press. Wailoo, Keith; Nelson, Alondra; Lee, Catherine (eds.) 2012 Genetics and the Unsettled Past: The Collision of DNA, Race, and History. Rutgers University Press. Young, Joseph & Braziel, Jane (eds.) 2001 Race and the Foundations of Knowledge: Cultural Amnesia in the Academy. University of Illinois Press. Urbana. Yudell, Michael 2014 Race Unmasked: Biology and Race in the Twentieth Century. Columbia University Press. New York. Zack, Naomi 2002 Philosophy of Science and Race. Routledge. New York.