The Bell Curve Wars
Race, Intelligence, and the Future of America
Published on 7. April 1995
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-0-465-00693-9 (ISBN)
Description
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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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Product notice
Paperback (UK-trade)
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
279 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-465-00693-9 (9780465006939)
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Content
* Introduction * 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