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. Bodmer, and Jerome Kagan--draw on fields that range from biology and genetics to psychology, anthropology, and education. What emerges in piece after piece is a deep skepticism about the scientific validity of intelligence tests, especially as applied to evaluating innate intelligence, if only because scientists still cannot distinguish between genetic and environmental contributions to the development of the human mind. Five new essays have been included that specifically address the claims made in the recent, highly controversial book, The Bell Curve. Must reading for anyone interested in racism and education in America, Race and IQ is a brilliantly lucid exploration of the boundary line between race and intelligence.
Author(s): Ashley Montagu
Edition: Expanded ed.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year: 1999
Language: English
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Pages: 502
Tags: Racism, Intelligence, IQ
Introduction Ashley Montagu
Natural Selection and the Mental Capacities of Mankind
Th. Dobzhansky and Ashley Montagu 19
The IQ Mythology Ashley Montagu 29
The Debate Over Race: Thirty Years and Two Centuries Later
Leonard Lieberman, with Alice Littlefield and Larry T. Reynolds 46
What Can Biologists Solve? S.E. Luria 91
The Magical Aura of the 1Q Jerome Kagan lol
An Examination of Jensen’s Theory Concerning Educability,
Heritability, and Population Differences S. Biesheuvel 108
An Affluent Society’s Excuses for Inequality: Developmental,
Economic, and Educational Edmund W. Gordon with Derek Green 122
Nature with Nurture; A Reinterpretation of the Evidence
Urie Bronfenbrenner 153
Racist Arguments and IQ Stephen Jay Gould 184
Intelligence, 1Q, and Race Ashley Montagu 190
On Creeping Jensenism C. Loring Brace and Frank B. Livingstone 207
Race and Intelligence Richard C. Lewontin 240
Heritability Analyses of IQ Scores: Science or Numerology?
David Layzer 248
On the Causes of [Q Differences Between Groups and
Implications for Social Policy Pegay R. Sanday 276
16 Race and IQ: The Genetic Background W.F. Bodmer 308
17 Is Early Intervention Effective? Some Studies of Early Education
in Familial and Extra-Familial Settings
Urie Bronfenbrenner 343
18 Bad Science, Worse Politics Alan Ryan 379
19 Behind the Curve Leon J. Kamin 397
20 The Tainted Sources of The Bell Curve Charles Lane 408
21 ‘‘Science’’ in the Service of Racism C. Loring Brace 425
22 How Heritability Misleads About Race Ned Block 444
