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

This book is the story of an American history rife with unnecessary misery and the waste of human potential, along with the liberating effect of understanding the degree to which its citizens are the product of social inheritance and the potential power of a nurturing economy and society that equality promises.

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Summary

This book is the story of an American history rife with unnecessary misery and the waste of human potential, along with the liberating effect of understanding the degree to which its citizens are the product of social inheritance and the potential power of a nurturing economy and society that equality promises.

Product details

• Authors: Gregory Chernomas, Robert Chernomas, Robert Hudson Chernomas, Chernomas Robert, Ian Hudson
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.03.2025
• EAN: 9781032945989
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3294598-9
• No. of pages: 228
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; Ethnic Studies, Social Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Social Theory, Social discrimination & inequality, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Race & Ethnic Relations, Social discrimination and social justice