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Race and IQ / edited by Ashley Montagu.

Van Pelt Library BF432.A1 R3 1999
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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Montagu, Ashley, 1905-1999.
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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