“This is a very important, profound, enjoyable and enlightening book. It should go a long way in helping disprove man’s most dangerous myth.”
- Robert W. Sussman, Professor of Anthropology, Washington University. Editor Emeritus of American Anthropologist
“...a tour de force that conveys the current science on racial classification in a rigorous yet readable way. A book so clearly written, so elegantly crafted, so packed with nuggets that even those who think they know it all about race and racial classification will come away changed.”
- David B. Grusky, Professor of Sociology, Director of the Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality, Stanford University
“... a true work of enlightenment, one man’s grass-roots effort to raise our collective consciousness to the absurdity of belief in the notion of race, and to raise awareness of the fundamental unity of humankind".
- George Williamson, PhD; Department of Philosophy, University of Saskatchewan
“Guy Harrison’s well-written and passionate plea for eliminating the idea and ideology of race should be widely read. He has shown that the idea of race not only is contradicted by science but is a social anachronism that should not be tolerated by society in the 21st century.”
– Audrey Smedley, Professor Emerita Anthropology, Virginia Commonwealth University
“Guy P. Harrison’s comprehensive and engaging book should be required reading for anyone who has thought about the benighted issue of ‘race.’ It will clear the cobwebs from your head.”
– Steve Olson, author of “Mapping Human History: Discovering the Past Through Our Genes”
“For decades, social and biological scientists have amassed evidence demonstrating that the human species has no races, and that differences between groups called “races” are not biologically based. Race and Reality by Guy P. Harrison makes this knowledge accessible, and knocks the props out from under ‘scientific’ arguments that have been used to justify racism.”
– Jefferson M. Fish, Professor Emeritus of Psychology, St. John’s University, New York
“Drawing on a wide variety of evidence–the hard data from fossils and DNA, interviews with the victims of racism, and personal experiences–Harrison dismantles the ‘race’ concept, bolt by bolt. Exposing race as a social illusion and political tool–rather than a biological reality–Harrison forces the reader to consider how they think about “other folk.”
– Cameron M. Smith, PhD, Department of Anthropology,
Portland State University
