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The Myth of Race

The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea

Robert Wald Sussman

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$23.00 • £20.95 • €20.95

ISBN 9780674660038

Publication Date: 03/14/2016

384 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

4 halftones, 2 line illustrations

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Robert Wald Sussman was Professor of Physical Anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis.

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At Newsweek, read an excerpt from The Myth of Race, “There Is No Such Thing as Race”
At Salon, read an excerpt from The Myth of Race on the “sick ideas and perverted ‘science’ of the American Renaissance Foundation”
Listen to Robert Wald Sussman discuss why racial ideologies persist—despite their having been soundly debunked—on Texas Public Radio’s The Source and St. Louis Public Radio’s St. Louis on the Air
Listen to Professor Sussman talk race on the Irish radio program Moncrieff [at 08:00]

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