| Description |
xviii, 436 p. : charts ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
Scientific approach to understanding race and intelligence / Jefferson M. Fish -- Genetic and evolutionary significance of human races / Alan R. Templeton -- Misuse of life history theory : J. P. Rushton and the pseudoscience of racial hierarchy / Joseph L. Graves, Jr. -- Folk heredity / Jonathan Marks -- Myth of race / Jefferson M. Fish -- Science and the idea of race : a brief history / Audrey Smedley -- Bell curve and the politics of negrophobia / Kimberly C. Welch -- Anthropologist looks at "race" and IQ testing / Mark Nathan Cohen -- African inputs to the IQ controversy, or why two-legged animals can't sit gracefully / Eugenia Shanklin -- Cultural amplifiers of intelligence : IQ and minority status in cross-cultural perspective / John U. Ogbu -- How heritability misleads about race / Ned Block -- Selections of evidence, misleading assumptions, and oversimplifications : the political message of The bell curve / John L. Horn -- Test scores, education, and poverty / Michael Hout -- Intelligence and success : is it all in the genes? / Bernie Devlin ... [et al.] -- Compensatory preschool education, cognitive development, and "race" / W. Steven Barnett and Gregory Camilli. |
| Subject |
Intellect.
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Race.
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Intelligence levels -- Social aspects.
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Intelligence tests -- Social aspects.
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| Added Author |
Fish, Jefferson M.
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| ISBN |
0805837574 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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