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| Named Person: | Richard J Herrnstein; Richard J Herrnstein |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Steve Fraser |
| ISBN: | 0465006930 9780465006939 |
| OCLC Number: | 32013539 |
| Description: | vi, 216 p. ; 21 cm. |
| Contents: | Curveball / Stephen Jay Gould -- Cracking open the IQ box / Howard Gardner -- Race, IQ, and scientism / Richard Nisbett -- The sources of The bell curve / Jeffrey Rosen and Charles Lane -- Paradise miscalculated / Dante Ramos -- Ethnicity and IQ / Thomas Sowell -- Back to the future with The bell curve : Jim Crow, slavery, and G / Jacqueline Jones -- Why now? / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. -- Caste, crime, and precocity / Andrew Hacker -- Has there been a cognitive revolution in America? : the flawed sociology of The bell curve / Alan Wolfe -- Hearts of darkness / John B. Judis -- The "it-matters-little" gambit / Mickey Kaus -- Scientific truth and the American dilemma / Nathan Glazer -- Equality : an endangered faith / Martin Peretz -- The lowerers / Leon Wieseltier -- Developing the rage to win / Hugh Pearson -- Brave new right / Michael Lind -- The phony war / Randall Kennedy -- For whom the bell curves / Orlando Patterson. |
| Responsibility: | Steven Fraser, editor. |
Abstract:
The Bell Curve by Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray has generated a firestorm of debate, confirming for some their secret belief in the innate inferiority of certain "races" or ethnic groups, angering many who view the book as an ill-concealed racist manifesto, and worrying untold others who fear the further racial polarization of American society. In The Bell Curve Wars, a group of our country's most distinguished intellectuals dismantles the alleged scientific foundations and criticizes the alarming public policy conclusions of this incendiary book.
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- Intellect.
- Nature and nurture.
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- Psychology, Educational -- Collected Works.
- Social Class -- Collected Works.
- Intelligentie.
- Erfelijkheid en omgeving.
- Rassen (mens)
- Etnische groepen.
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