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SUMMARY:Reader Meet Writer: How to Argue With a Racist w/ Adam Rutherford
DESCRIPTION:Join us Tuesday\, Aug 18th\, from 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm for a candid chat with Adam Rutherford and his important work\, How to Argue with a Racist. Email us at mainstreetreads@gmail.com for the link and password to this event. Books can be ordered for pickup in store or click the link in the title above to grab from our warehouse bookshop!\n \n\n\n\nRacist pseudoscience is on the rise—fueling hatred\, feeding nationalism\, and seeping into our discourse on everything from sports to intelligence. Even the well-intentioned repeat stereotypes based on “science\,” because cutting-edge genetics are hard to grasp—and all too easy to distort. Paradoxically\, misconceptions are multiplying amid today’s unprecedented surge of research on human genetics. We’ve never had a clearer picture of who we are and where we come from\, and the science\, when accurately understood\, is a powerful and definitive ally against racism. But not nearly enough of these findings have made their way into the casual conversations we have about race. \nThis penetrating guide shows us how being a responsible and enlightened citizen on the matter of race today requires us to know what modern genetics actually can and can’t tell us about human difference. Racial categories still vexing our societies do not align with observable genetic differences—and those differences are\, in fact\, so minute that they serve as evidence of our commonality. \nAdam Rutherford is a geneticist\, science writer\, and broadcaster. He studied genetics at University College London\, and during his PhD on the developing eye\, he was part of a team that identified the first known genetic cause of a form of childhood blindness. As well as writing for the science pages of The Guardian\, he has written and presented many award-winning series and programs for the BBC\, including the flagship weekly Radio 4 program Inside Science\, The Cell for BBC Four\, and Playing God (on the rise of synthetic biology) for the leading science series Horizon. He is also the author of How to Argue With a Racist\, an incisive guide to what modern genetics can and can’t tell us about human difference; The Book of Humans\, a new evolutionary history that explores the profound paradox of the “human animal”; A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived\, finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in nonfiction; and Creation\, on the origin of life and synthetic biology\, which was short-listed for the Wellcome Book Prize.
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/reader-meet-writer-how-to-argue-with-a-racist-w-adam-rutherford/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Discussion,Reader Meet Writer,Virtual Author Event
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