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The bell curve wars : race, intelligence, and the future of America

Title
The bell curve wars : race, intelligence, and the future of America / Steven Fraser, editor.
Publication
New York : BasicBooks, [1995], ©1995.

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Fraser, Steve, 1945-
Description
vi, 216 pages; 21 cm
Summary
  • 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.
Subject
  • Herrnstein, Richard J
  • Intellect
  • Nature and nurture
  • Intelligence levels > United States
  • Intelligence levels > Social aspects > United States
  • Educational psychology
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
1. Curveball / Stephen Jay Gould -- 2. Cracking Open the IQ Box / Howard Gardner -- 3. Race, IQ, and Scientism / Richard Nisbett -- 4. The Sources of The Bell Curve / Jeffrey Rosen and Charles Lane -- 5. Paradise Miscalculated / Dante Ramos -- 6. Ethnicity and IQ / Thomas Sowell -- 7. Back to the Future with The Bell Curve: Jim Crow, Slavery, and G / Jacqueline Jones -- 8. Why Now? / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. -- 9. Caste, Crime, and Precocity / Andrew Hacker -- 10. Has There Been a Cognitive Revolution in America? The Flawed Sociology of The Bell Curve / Alan Wolfe -- 11. Hearts of Darkness / John B. Judis -- 12. The "It-Matters-Little" Gambit / Mickey Kaus -- 13. Scientific Truth and the American Dilemma / Nathan Glazer -- 14. Equality: An Endangered Faith / Martin Peretz -- 15. The Lowerers / Leon Wieseltier -- 16. Developing the Rage to Win / Hugh Pearson -- 17. Brave New Right / Michael Lind -- 18. The Phony War / Randall Kennedy -- 19. For Whom the Bell Curves / Orlando Patterson.
ISBN
0465006930
LCCN
95001880
OCLC
  • 32013539
  • ocm32013539
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries