ISBN:
0805837574
,
9780805837575
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xviii, 436 p)
,
ill
,
24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Race and Intelligence : Separating Science from Myth
DDC:
305.9/082
Keywords:
Intelligence tests Social aspects
;
Intelligence levels Social aspects
;
Intellect
;
Race
Abstract:
In recent years, reported racial disparities in IQ scores have been the subject of raging debates in the behavioral and social sciences and education. What can be made of these test results in the context of current scientific knowledge about human evolution and cognition? Unfortunately, discussion of these issues has tended to generate more heat than light. Now, the distinguished authors of this book offer powerful new illumination. Representing a range of disciplines--psychology, anthropology, biology, economics, history, philosophy, sociology, and statistics--the authors review the concept
Description / Table of Contents:
Front Cover; Race and Intelligence; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Contributors; 1. A Scientific Approach to Understanding Race and Intelligence: Jefferson M.Fish; Part I; 2. The Genetic and Evolutionary Significance or Human Races: Alan R.Templeton; 3. The Misuse of Life History Theory: J. P. Rushton and the Pseudoscience of Racial Hierarchy: Joseph L.Graves, Jr.; 4. Folk Heredity: Jonathan Marks; 5. The Myth of Race: Jefferson M.Fish; Part II; 6. Science and the Idea of Race: A Brief History: Audrey Smedley; 7. The Bell Curve and the Politics of Negrophobia: Kimberly C.Welch; Part III
Description / Table of Contents:
8. An Anthropologist Looks at "Race" and IQ Testing: Mark Nathan Cohen9. African Inputs to the IQ Controversy, or Why Two-Legged AnimalsCan't Sit Gracefully: Eugenia Shanklin; 10. Cultural Amplifiers of Intelligence: IQ and Minority Status in Cross-Cultural Perspective: John U.Ogbu; Part IV; 11. How Heritability Misleads About Race: Ned Block; 12. Selections of Evidence, Misleading Assumptions, and Oversimplifications: The Political Message of The Bell Curve: John L.Horn; Part V; 13. Test Scores, Education, and Poverty: Michael Hout
Description / Table of Contents:
14. Intelligence and Success: Is it All in the Genes?: Bernie Devlin, Stephen E.Fienberg, Daniel P. Resnick,and Kathryn Roeder15. Compensatory Preschool Education, Cognitive Development, and "Race": W.Steven Barnett and Gregory Camilli; Author Index; Subject Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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