{"product_id":"race-isnt-real-but-it-changed-everything-9798259194267","title":"Race Isn't Real: But It Changed Everything","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Kevin L. Whitworth\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Movements - Behaviorism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat if one of modern society's most powerful ideas was never a biological truth at all?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRace Isn't Real-But It Changed Everything is a sharp, fearless investigation into one of humanity's most deeply ingrained-and most misunderstood-social constructs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this provocative nonfiction work, Kevin L. Whitworth dismantles the concept of race from its roots, separating visible human differences from the meanings societies attached to them. Blending history, science, psychology, and cultural analysis, Whitworth explores how skin color became more than biology-how it became classification, hierarchy, law, identity, and power.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is not a denial of lived experience. It is an examination of how a false biological framework created very real consequences.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInside, you'll explore: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy the human brain naturally notices difference-but does not inherently assign superiority\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow slavery existed long before race, and how race was later constructed to justify systems of power\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe rise of colonial classification, pseudoscience, and manufactured hierarchy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy genetics dismantles traditional racial categories\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow laws and institutions transformed social fiction into lived reality\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy race persists despite weak scientific foundations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow politics, media, and identity keep outdated categories alive\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat it means to move beyond race without denying history\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eBold but grounded, challenging but deeply human, Race Isn't Real-But It Changed Everything does not argue that differences do not exist. It argues that the meanings we attached to them were built-not discovered.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor readers of social criticism, historical analysis, psychology, and cultural philosophy, this book offers a powerful reexamination of how we see ourselves-and each other.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne species. Endless variation. A history shaped not just by what we saw... but by what we decided it meant.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47966681464983,"sku":"9798259194267","price":1181.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798259194267.webp?v=1782911824","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/race-isnt-real-but-it-changed-everything-9798259194267","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}