Featured in ABC News, Katie Couric Media, and Anne Helen Peterson’s Culture Study
"Rethinking Intelligence decisively debunks the resilient belief that we are born with a measurable level of intelligence that ranks us against one another."
— Dorothy Roberts, Director, Penn Program on Race, Science & Society and author of Fatal Invention
"In a world obsessed with scores, rankings, and competition as the basis for success, Rethinking Intelligence is a refreshing and much-needed shake up of how we understand intelligence.”
— Tovah Klein, PhD, Director of the Barnard College Center for Toddler Development and author of How Toddlers Thrive
“Rina Bliss envisions a future society where we can recognize new human potentials, free from the restrictions of intelligence tests that limit our educational and career opportunities.”
— Eben Kirksey, University of Oxford, author of The Mutant Project
RACE DECODED
The Genomic Fight for Social Justice
Stanford University Press, 2012
Winner of the 2014 Oliver Cromwell Cox Award, sponsored by the ASA Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities.
In 2000, with the success of the Human Genome Project, scientists declared the death of race in biology and medicine. But within five years, many of these same scientists had reversed course and embarked upon a new hunt for the biological meaning of race. read more
SOCIAL BY NATURE
The Promise and Peril of Sociogenomics
Stanford University Press, 2018
Sociogenomics has rapidly become one of the trendiest sciences of the new millennium. Practitioners view human nature and life outcomes as the result of genetic and social factors. In Social by Nature, Dr. Rina Bliss recognizes the promise of this interdisciplinary young science, but also questions its implications for the future. read more
WHAT’S REAL ABOUT RACE?
Untangling Science, Genetics, and Society
W.W. Norton, forthcoming 2025
What’s Real About Race? is a myth-busting exploration of race and genetics that reveals that race isn’t a mere social construct, it is a social reality. read more