Race is a relatively recent concept, says science journalist Angela Saini, in Superior. The beginnings of race science seem to emerge with the Victorian frenzy for categorising life. Aghast at the horror in which race science and eugenics had been complicit, biologists and anthropologists in the west did their best to do what winners do: rewrite the narrative. In fact, argues Saini, race science never went away. • Superior: The Return of Race Science by Angela Saini is published by 4th Estate (£16.99).

Source: The Guardian May 27, 2019 09:56 UTC