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Race and IQ / edited by Ashley Montagu.
LIBRA BF432.A1 R3 1999
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Intelligence tests.
- Race.
- Nature and nurture.
- Racism in psychology.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 486 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- Expanded edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.
- Summary:
- Highlighted in Publisher's Weekly as a must-read for anyone interested in the debate about genetics, Race and IQ is the definitive response to The Bell Curve, as well as a brilliantly lucid exploration of the concepts and misconceptions about race and intelligence.
- Contents:
- Introduction / Ashley Montagu
- Natural selection and the mental capacities of mankind / Th. Dobzhansky and Ashley Montagu
- The IQ mythology / Ashley Montagu
- The debate over race : thirty years and two centuries later / Leonard Lieberman, with Alice Littlefield and Larry T. Reynolds
- What can biologists solve? / S.E. Luria
- The magical aura of the IQ / Jerome Kagan
- An examination of Jensen's theory concerning educability, heritability, and population differences / S. Biesheuvel
- An affluent society's excuses for inequality : developmental, economic, and educational / Edmund W. Gordon with Derek Green
- Nature with nurture; a reinterpretation of the evidence / Urie Bronfenbrenner
- Racist arguments and IQ / Stephen Jay Gould
- Intelligence, IQ, and race / Ashley Montagu
- On creeping Jensenism / C. Loring Brace and Frank B. Livingstone
- Race and intelligence / Richard C. Lewontin
- Heritability analyses of IQ scores : science or numerology? / David Layzer
- On the causes of IQ differences between groups and implications for social policy / Peggy R. Sanday
- Race and IQ: the genetic background / W.F. Bodmer
- Is early intervention effective? Some studies of early education in familial and extra-familial settings / Urie Bronfenbrenner
- Bad science, worse politics / Alan Ryan
- Behind the curve / Leon J. Kamin
- The tainted sources of The bell curve / Charles Lane
- "Science" in the service of racism / C. Loring Brace
- How heritability misleads about race / Ned Block.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 0195102207
- 0195102215
- OCLC:
- 32922912
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