Race and IQ

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Author: Ashley Montagu

ISBN-10: 0195102215

ISBN-13: 9780195102215

Category: Education -> Testing & Measurement -> General

Ashley Montagu, who first attacked the term "race" as a usable concept in his acclaimed work, Man's Most Dangerous Myth, offers here a devastating rebuttal to those who would claim any link between race and intelligence. \ In now classic essays, this thought-provoking volume critically examines the terms "race" and "IQ" and their applications in scientific discourse. The twenty-four contributors—including such eminent thinkers as Stephen Jay Gould, Richard Lewontin, Urie Bronfenbrenner, W.F....

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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.

1. Introduction, Ashley Montagu2. Natural Selection and the Mental Capacities of Mankind, Th. Dobzansky and Ashley Montagu3. The IQ Mythology, Ashley Montagu4. The Debate Over Race: Thirty Years and Two Centuries Later, Leonard Lieberman, with Alice Littlefield and Larry T. Reynolds5. What Can Biologists Solve?, S.E. Luria6. The Magical Aura of the IQ, Jerome Kagan7. An Examination of Jensen's Theory Concerning Educability, Heritability, and Population Differences, S. Biesheuvel8. An Affluent Society's Excuses for Inequality: Developmental, Economic, and Educational, Edmund W. Gordon with Derek Green9. Nature with Nurture; A Reinterpretation of the Evidence, Urie Brofenbrenner10. Racist Arguments and IQ, Stephen Jay Gould11. Intelligence, IQ, and Race, Ashley Montagu12. On Creeping Jensenism, C. Loring Brace and Frank B. Livingstone13. Race and Intelligence, Richard C. Lewontin14. Heritability Analyses of IQ Scores: Science or Numerology?, David Layzer15. On The Causes of IQ Differences Between Groups and Implications for Social Policy, Peggy R. Sanday16. Race and IQ: The Genetic Background, W.F. Bodmer17. Is Early Intervention Effective? Some Studies of Early Education in Familial and Extra-Familial Settings, Urie Brofenbrenner18. Bad Science, Worse Politics, Alan Ryan19. Behind the Curve, Leon J. Kamin20. The Tainted Sources of The Bell Curve, Charles Lane21. "Science" in the Sevice of Racism, C. Loring Brace22. How Heritability Misleads About Race, Ned Block