How to Argue with a Racist

By Adam Rutherford,

Book cover of How to Argue with a Racist: What Our Genes Do (and Don't) Say about Human Difference

Book description

This authoritative debunking of racist claims that masquerade as “genetics” is a timely weapon against the misuse of science to justify bigotry—now in paperback

Race is not a biological reality.
Racism thrives on our not knowing this.

In fact, racist pseudoscience has become so commonplace that it can be hard…

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1 author picked How to Argue with a Racist as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

When researching the online radicalization that drew in one of the teenagers I write about in my book, I understood how easy it would be to fall victim to fake science about race if you weren’t armed with the real science.

Rutherford’s pocket-sized book refutes common lies and misconceptions about human difference in a manner that is easy to understand without glossing over the complexity of genetics.

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