# What's the Use of Race?

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- Book: [What's the Use of Race?](https://www.bookquiver.com/ian-whitmarsh/whats-the-use-of-race) ([What's the Use of Race?.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/ian-whitmarsh/whats-the-use-of-race.md))
- Authors: [Ian Whitmarsh](https://www.bookquiver.com/ian-whitmarsh), [David S. Jones](https://www.bookquiver.com/david-s-jones)
- Publisher: the_mit_press
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-02-6226-571-3
- Published: 2010-04-16
- Language: en_US
- Binding: E-book

## Description

How race as a category—reinforced by new discoveries in genetics—is used as a basis for practice and policy in law, science, and medicine. The post–civil rights era perspective of many...