Superior: The Return of Race Science

by Angela Saini

Because this is how power works. It takes, it claims and it keeps. It makes you believe that this is where they belong. It’s designed to put you in your place.

‘Whenever anybody tells you I am objective, I am apolitical, that is the time to watch your wallet. Because you’re about to have your pocket picked.’

‘Racism,’ it reminded them in case they had forgotten, is ‘socially and politically constructed.’ Science is just a pawn in the bloody game.