Strange Fruit: Why Both Sides are Wrong in the Race Debate

The debate about race is back - and with a vengeance. In the past scientific ideas of race reflected political ideas of inferiority and superiority, whereas today it reflects contemporary notions of diversity. Malik challenges both sides of the race debate, controversially revealing that it is not through the scientific study of human differences but through our political obsession with identity and diversity that racial ideas are once more catching fire.