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    Is 'Race Science' Making A Comeback?

    We talked to Angela Saini, author of the new book Superior: The Return of Race Science, about how race isn't real (but you know ... still is) and how race science crept its way into the 21st century.
    by Jess Kung Jul 10, 2019 5 minutes
    Angela Saini, author of <em>Superior: The Return of Race Science.</em>

    When Angela Saini was 10 years old, her family moved from what she called "a very multicultural area" in East London to the almost exclusively white Southeast London. Suddenly her brown skin stood out, making her a target. She couldn't avoid the harassment coming from two boys who lived around the corner. One day, they pelted her and her sister with rocks. She remembers one hit her on the head. She remembers bleeding.

    There had been racist comments before that, she says, "but that was the first time that someone around my own age had decided to physically hurt me. And it was tough."

    It was also one of the first stories she reported, writing about the incident and reading it out for class. She says that's what made her a journalist.

    Saini is now an award-winning science tracks the history and ideology of race science up to its current resurgence.

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