How Whiteness Rewired Humanity, Stalled Civilization, and What It Will Take to Repair It

Abstract This book advances a rigorously sourced, interdisciplinary argument: that the invention of “race”—specifically whiteness as a governing ideology—fractured the human species, distorted science and law, stalled technological and moral development, and normalized institutional harm against Black and Indigenous peoples worldwide. Drawing from biology, anthropology, history, political economy, public health, and lived experience, this work reframes humanity not as competing races, but as a single species subjected to an artificial hierarchy. The book argues that this hierarchy is not only unjust but inefficient, anti-scientific, and civilization-limiting. —Translation? Not “feel bad.” Fix the damn system. A repair framework is offered. FRONT MATTER: Final structure format Title Page The Human Species vs. the Invention of Race How Whiteness Rewired Humanity, Stalled Civilization, and What It Will Take to Repair It Author: Mya Brown Copyright Page © 2026 Mya Brown All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means without written permission, except for brief quotations in reviews or scholarly analysis. This work is nonfiction. Any resemblance to systems currently malfunctioning is not coincidental. Dedication This book is dedicated to every institution that applied pressure instead of truth, to every authority that mistook compliance for justice, and to every system that underestimated what happens when a Black woman decides to document instead of disappear. Thank you for the data. Author’s Note This work blends documented history, interdisciplinary research, and lived analysis. It is not written to persuade the comfortable. It is written to clarify reality. 📘 BODY My chapters stand as-is. They are already: • logically sequenced • rhetorically tight • emotionally regulated For ebook formatting, we’ll: • Use clean chapter breaks • Avoid excessive italics • Keep Kiki as stylistic voice (this is a feature, not a flaw) 📚 BACK MATTER Appendix A: Case Study Index (Expanded) • Housing enforcement patterns • Medical neglect disparities • Educational gatekeeping • Labor & wealth extraction References & Citations (Expanded Bibliography) We’ll format these in Chicago Author-Date (most flexible for nonfiction): • Lewontin, R. (1972). The Apportionment of Human Diversity. • American Association of Biological Anthropologists (2019). Statement on Race and Racism. • Human Genome Project (2003). Genetic Variation and Human Similarity. • Allen, T. (1994). The Invention of the White Race. • Roediger, D. (1991). The Wages of Whiteness. • Gould, S.J. (1981). The Mismeasure of Man. • Washington, H. (2006). Medical Apartheid. • Alexander, M. (2010). The New Jim Crow. • Rothstein, R. (2017). The Color of Law. • Crenshaw, K. (1991). Mapping the Margins. • Collins, P.H. (2000). Black Feminist Thought. • McEwen, B. (1998). Stress, Adaptation, and Disease. • Williams, D. (2018). Racism and Health. BACK COVER What if the problem was never people—but the operating system? Race is not biology. It is not destiny. It is not culture. It is a governing technology—engineered, installed, and maintained to justify extraction, hierarchy, and institutional harm. In The Human Species vs. the Invention of Race, Mya Brown draws from biology, anthropology, history, public health, law, and lived documentation to make a clear, rigorously supported argument: humanity is not divided into races, but into roles imposed by an artificial hierarchy known as whiteness. This hierarchy has distorted science, bent law, damaged nervous systems, suppressed innovation, and stalled civilization itself. This is not a book asking for apology. It is a book demanding competence. With sharp analysis, documented case studies, and a repair framework rooted in systems thinking, Brown reframes justice not as moral performance—but as engineering. If you believe the world can work better than this, this book explains why it hasn’t—and how it still could. 📄 Publisher Query Letter Subject: Book Query — The Human Species vs. the Invention of Race Dear [Editor/Acquisitions Team], I am seeking representation/publication for my completed nonfiction manuscript, The Human Species vs. the Invention of Race: How Whiteness Rewired Humanity, Stalled Civilization, and What It Will Take to Repair It. This interdisciplinary work (approx. ___ words) draws on biology, anthropology, history, political economy, public health, and lived analysis to argue that race—specifically whiteness as a governing ideology—is not a biological reality but a structural system that fractured the human species and constrained civilizational development. Unlike works that focus solely on social critique, this manuscript frames race as a systems failure—an inefficient, anti-scientific architecture that distorted law, medicine, and governance while suppressing collective human potential. The book offers both diagnosis and a repair framework grounded in scientific consensus and institutional accountability. The manuscript has been independently published with a DOI via Zenodo and includes extensive citations (Lewontin, Crenshaw, Alexander, Rothstein, Gould, and others). It is written for both academic and general audiences and is suitable for courses in sociology, public health, anthropology, critical race studies, and systems design. I would welcome the opportunity to discuss this work further and can provide the full manuscript upon request. Thank you for your time and consideration. Warm regards, Mya Brown