Tip for Reading List: When race is taken as ‘science’ | Explained News, The Indian Express

Tip for Reading List: When race is taken as ‘science’ | Explained News, The Indian Express

By Express News Service |New Delhi |Updated: June 18, 2019 9:11:53 am

Tip for Reading List: When race is taken as ‘science’

Even great scientists looked at race as a scientific characteristic and white people at the top of the hierarchy.

Saini argues that white supremacists continued to study race science in the shadows, and it is now witnessing a revival. (Express Illustration)

Last year, British science journalist Angela Saini’s widely acclaimed Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong — and the New Research That’s Rewriting the Story examined sexism in science and used scientific arguments to counter various patriarchal notions.