1st Edition

The American Gene Unnatural Selection Along Class, Race, and Gender Lines

240 Pages 21 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

240 Pages 21 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

240 Pages 21 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

"Claims about genetic superiority ignore the real drivers of human inequality", The Conversation , by Robert Chernomas and Ian Hudson Biological justification for all forms of inequality has a long history, with the claim that particular groups suffer disproportionately from inherited flaws of ability and character used to explain a remarkably wide variety of inequalities. Providing an... Read more

Acknowledgement

Introduction: Why We Are What We Are
1. Biodeterminism: Naturalizing History
2. Unnatural Selection
3. The Economic Inheritance of the White Working Class
4. The Economic and Social Inheritance of Black Americans
5. The Economic and Social Inheritance of American Women
6. COVID: A Case Study in Inequality

Epilogue: A Never-Ending Story

Biography

Robert Chernomas is a professor of economics at the University of Manitoba. He was also a visiting professor at Johns Hopkins University and Bucknell University. He is the co-author of Neoliberal Lives: Work, Politics, Nature, Health in the Contemporary United States (2019), The Profit Doctrine: The Economists of the Neoliberal Era (2017) and Economics in the 21st Century: A Critical Perspective (2016).

Ian Hudson is Associate Head of the Economics and Society Stream in the Economics Department at the University of Manitoba. He is the co-author (with Robert Chernomas) of Neoliberal Lives: Work, Politics, Nature, Health in the Contemporary United States (2019), The Profit Doctrine: The Economists of the Neoliberal Era (2017), and Economics in the 21st Century: A Critical Perspective (2016).

Gregory Chernomas is a PhD student researching in Theoretical Epigenetics at the University of Guelph.