附註:Includes bibliographical references and index.
A scientific approach to understanding race and intelligence / Jefferson M. Fish -- The genetic and evolutionary significance of human races / Alan R. Templeton -- The misuse of life history theory: J.P. Rushton and the pseudoscience of racial hierarchy / Joseph L. Graves, Jr.-- Folk heredity / Jonathan Marks -- The myth of race / Jefferson M. Fish -- Science and the idea of race: a brief history / Audrey Smedley -- The bell curve and the politics of negrophobia / Kimberly C. Welch -- An anthropologist looks at "race" and IQ testing / Mark Nathan Cohen -- African inputs to the IQ controversy, or why two-legged animals can't sit gracefully / Eugenia Shanklin -- Cultural amplifiers of intelligence: IQ and minority status in cross-cultural perspective / John U. Ogbu -- How heritability misleads about race / Ned Block -- Selections of evidence, misleading assumptions, and oversimplifications: the political message of The bell curve / John L. Horn -- Test scores, education, and poverty / Michael Hout -- Intelligence and success: is it all in the genes? / Bernie Devlin [and others] -- Compensatory preschool education, cognitive development, and "race" / W. Steven Barnett and Gregory Camilli.
摘要:"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 (although 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 abitities. Race and Intelligence offers the most comprehensive and definitive response thus far to claims of innate differences in intelligence among races."--Jacket.
