The Bell Curve Wars: Race, Intelligence, and the Future of America

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Steven Fraser
Basic Books, 2008 M08 5 - 352 páginas
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.Anyone who has wondered about the connection among genes, race, and intelligence, all those anxious about racial antagonisms in our nation, those who question the efficacy of social welfare programs, all those troubled but unconvinced by Herrnstein and Murray’s book, will want to read The Bell Curve Wars.

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Introduction
1
Cracking Open the IQ Box
23
Race IQ and Scientism
36
The Sources of The Bell Curve
58
Jim Crow
80
Why Now?
94
Has There Been a Cognitive Revolution in America?
109
Hearts of Darkness
124
Scientific Truth and the American Dilemma
139
An Endangered Faith
148
The Lowerers
156
Developing the Rage to
164
Brave New Right
172
The Phony
179
For Whom the Bell Curves
187
List of Contributors
215

The ItMattersLittle Gambit
130

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