Debates about race are back and they're only getting bigger. There has recently been a massive upsurge in scientific racial research. The US government has licensed a heart drug to be used only on African Americans. A genetic study claims that Jews are more intelligent because their history of financial occupations favored genes associated with cleverness. Malik argues that this rise in racial ideas is paradoxically due to the efforts of liberal anti-racism.
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Starred Review. In 1996, a 9,000-year-old skull was excavated near Kennewick, Wash., and quickly became the focus of a charged debate between scientists and Native American groups who battled over the race of the skeleton and which group could claim ownership. The controversy over race, biology and genealogy is an ideal touchstone for this smart and sensible book that brilliantly encapsulates the incident, asking: Who owns knowledge? and why antiracism has come to be defined in opposition to scientific rationality. While race is increasingly regarded as a social construct, not biological reality, Malik (Man, Beast and Zombie) demonstrates how the contemporary obsession with identity has propelled a dangerous—and liberal—tendency to romanticize race. Commonalities are being downplayed, according to the author, as individuals are seeking answers in terms of history and heritage. Malik's argument will likely stimulate further controversy—he wrestles with Enlightenment and Romantic philosophies, political correctness, identity politics and racism, not to mention the repatriation of cultural artifacts. A neat summary of the history of thinking behind race, the book projects not a milquetoast middle ground but rational approaches for moving forward in a racialized world. (Aug.)
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"This question of whether we need to tiptoe respectfully around particular beliefs as somehow culturally privileged has been recently addressed by the science writer Kenan Malik in his interesting book on race, Strange Fruit. --The Times
"Strange Fruit:Why Both Sides Are Wrong in the Race Debate has ignited a firestorm of controversy within the scientific community...Malik's extended argument for recognizing the complexity of racial identification is well worth reading for the clarity and insight he brings to the discussion." --Magill Book Reviews for MagillOnLiteraturePlus and Library Reference Center
"Three cheers for Malik's rationalism" --New Scientist
"Kenan's lucid polemic provides a fascinating history of changing interpretations of the idea of race." --Sunday Telegraph "Seven"
"Strange Fruit:Why Both Sides Are Wrong in the Race Debate has ignited a firestorm of controversy within the scientific community...Malik's extended argument for recognizing the complexity of racial identification is well worth reading for the clarity and insight he brings to the discussion." --Magill Book Reviews for MagillOnLiteraturePlus and Library Reference Center
"Three cheers for Malik's rationalism" --New Scientist
"Kenan's lucid polemic provides a fascinating history of changing interpretations of the idea of race." --Sunday Telegraph "Seven"
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