The Sunday Times Bestseller
As heard on BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week

“The ultimate anti-racism guide.” – Caroline Criado Perez
“Seriously important.” – Bill Bryson
“A fascinating debunking of racial pseudoscience.” – The Guardian

Racist pseudoscience may be on the rise, but science itself is no ally to bigotry. On the contrary, science and history offer some of the most powerful tools we have for dismantling it.

In How to Argue With a Racist, geneticist and broadcaster Adam Rutherford exposes the myths and misunderstandings that underpin ideas of race. Drawing on modern genetics, evolution, and history, he explains what science can and cannot tell us about human difference, and why so many commonly held beliefs simply do not stand up to scrutiny.

Clear, rigorous, and urgently needed, this book is both a manifesto for a twenty-first-century understanding of human variation and a vital defence against the misuse of science to justify racism.

This updated edition includes a new preface from the author.