Race and Intelligence (eBook, PDF)

Separating Science From Myth
Redaktion: Fish, Jefferson M.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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 of race and then the concept of intelligence. Presenting a wide range of findings, they put the experience of the United States--so frequently the only focus of attention--in global perspective. They also show that the human species has no "races" in the biological sense (though cultures have a variety of folk concepts of "race"), that there is no single form of intelligence, and that formal education helps individuals to develop a variety of cognitive abilities. Race and Intelligence offers the most comprehensive and definitive response thus far to claims of innate differences in intelligence among races.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 456
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135651794
• Artikelnr.: 38444575

Autorenporträt

Jefferson M. Fish

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface. J.M. Fish
A Scientific Approach to Understanding Race and Intelligence. Part I: A.R. Templeton
The Genetic and Evolutionary Significance of Human Races.J.L. Graves
Jr.
The Misuse of Life History Theory: J.P. Rushton and the Pseudoscience of Racial Hierarchy. J. Marks
Folk Heredity. J.M. Fish
The Myth of Race. Part II: A. Smedley
Science and the Idea of Race: A Brief History.K.C. Welch
The Bell Curve and the Politics of Negrophobia. Part III: M.N. Cohen
An Anthropologist Looks at "Race" and IQ Testing. E. Shanklin
African Inputs to the IQ Controversy
or Why Two-Legged Animals Can't Sit Gracefully. J.U. Ogbu
Cultural Amplifiers of Intelligence: IQ and Minority Status in Cross-Cultural Perspective. Part IV: N. Block
How Heritability Misleads About Race. J.L. Horn
Selections of Evidence
Misleading Assumptions
and Oversimplifications: The Political Message of The Bell Curve. Part V: M. Hout
Test Scores
Education
and Poverty. B. Devlin
S.E. Fienberg
D.P. Resnick
K. Roeder
Intelligence and Success: Is It All in the Genes? W.S. Barnett
G. Camilli
Compensatory Preschool Education
Cognitive Development
and "Race."