Race and intelligence : separating science from myth / edited by Jefferson M. Fish.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fish, Jefferson M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intellect.

Race.

Intelligence levels--Social aspects.

Intelligence levels.

Intelligence tests--Social aspects.

Intelligence tests.

Physical Description:

xviii, 436 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Mahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum, 2002.

Summary:

This bk offers the most comprehensive & definitive response thus far to claims of innate differences in intelligence among races. The distinguished authors, representing a range of relevant disciplines, show that the human species has no "races" in the/P>

Contents:

1 A Scientific Approach to Understanding Race and Intelligence / Jefferson M. Fish 1

2 The Genetic and Evolutionary Significance of Human Races / Alan R. Templeton 31

3 The Misuse of Life History Theory: J. P. Rushton and the Pseudoscience of Racial Hierarchy / Joseph L. Graves, Jr. 57

4 Folk Heredity / Jonathan Marks 95

5 The Myth of Race / Jefferson M. Fish 113

6 Science and the Idea of Race: A Brief History / Audrey Smedley 145

7 The Bell Curve and the Politics of Negrophobia / Kimberly C. Welch 177

8 An Anthropologist Looks at "Race" and IQ Testing / Mark Nathan Cohen 201

9 African Inputs to the IQ Controversy, or Why Two-Legged Animals Can't Sit Gracefully / Eugenia Shanklin 225

10 Cultural Amplifiers of Intelligence: IQ and Minority Status in Cross-cultural Perspective / John U. Ogbu 241

11 How Heritability Misleads About Race / Ned Block 281

12 Selections of Evidence, Misleading Assumptions, and Oversimplifications: The Political Message of The Bell Curve / John L. Horn 297

13 Test Scores, Education, and Poverty / Michael Hout 329

14 Intelligence and Success: Is it All in the Genes? / Bernie Devlin, Stephen E. Fienberg, Daniel P. Resnick, Kathryn Roeder 355

15 Compensatory Preschool Education, Cognitive Development, and "Race" / W. Steven Barnett, Gregory Camilli 369.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

0805837574

OCLC:

44075894