| Description |
xviii, 436 pages ; 24 cm |
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Preface -- Contributors -- [ch.] 1. A scientific approach to understanding race and intelligence / Jefferson M. Fish -- [ch.] 2. The genetic and evolutionary significance of human races / Alan R. Templeton -- [ch.] 3. The misuse of life history theory : J.P. Rushton and the pseudoscience of racial hierarchy / Joseph L. Graves, Jr. -- [ch.] 4. Folk heredity / Jonathan Marks -- [ch.] 5. The myth of race / Jefferson M. Fish -- [ch.] 6. Science and the idea of race : a brief history / Audrey Smedley -- [ch.] 7. The bell curve and the politics of negrophobia / Kimberly C. Welch -- [ch.] 8. An anthropologist looks at "race" and IQ testing / Mark Nathan Cohen -- [ch.] 9. African inputs to the IQ controversy, or why two-legged animals can't sit gracefully / Eugenia Shanklin -- [ch.] 10. Cultural amplifiers of intelligence : IQ and minority status in cross-cultural perspective / John U. Ogbu -- [ch.] 11. How heritability misleads about race / Ned Block -- [ch.] 12. Selections of evidence, misleading assumptions, and oversimplifications : the political message of The bell curve / John L. Horn -- [ch.] 13. Test scores, education, and poverty / Michael Hout -- [ch.] 14. Intelligence and success : is it all in the genes? / Bernie Devlin, Stephen E. Fienberg, Daniel P. Resnick, and Kathryn Roeder -- [ch.] 15. Compensatory preschool education, cognitive development, and "race" / W. Steven Barnett and Gregory Camilli -- Author Index -- Subject Index. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Subject |
Intellect.
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Intellect. |
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Race.
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Race. |
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Intelligence levels -- Social aspects.
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Intelligence levels -- Social aspects. |
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Intelligence levels. |
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Intelligence tests -- Social aspects.
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Intelligence tests -- Social aspects. |
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Intelligence tests. |
| Added Author |
Fish, Jefferson M.
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| ISBN |
0805837574 cloth alkaline paper |
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