The Bell Curve Debate: History, Documents, Opinions

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Russell Jacoby and Naomi Glauberman have edited a book on race, class, and intelligence that will stand for the foreseeable future as the authoritative guide to the extraordinary controversy ignited by Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray's incendiary bestseller, The Bell Curve. The editors have gathered together both the best of recent reviews and essays, and salient documents drawn from the curious history of this heated debate. The Bell Curve Debate captures the fervor, anger, and scope of an almost unprecedented national argument over the very idea of democracy and the possibility of a tolerant, multiracial America. It is an essential companion and answer to The Bell Curve, and provides scholarship and polemic from every point of view. It is a must-read for the informed citizen in search of all the views fit to print. - Acknowledgement - Introduction - HUE AND CRY: THE DEBATE 1. REVIEWS AND ARGUMENTS - "Mismeasure by Any Measure", Stephen Jay Gould - "Apocalypse Now?", Alan Ryan - "Blacktop Basketball and _The Bell Curve_" Gregg Easterbrook - "The Median Is the Message", Ellen Willis - "Clever Arguments, Atrocious Science", John Carey - "Skin-Deep Science", Jim Holt - "Scholarly Brinkmanship", Howard Gardner - "Innumeracy", K.C. Cole - "Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics", Leon J. Kamin - "Sermon as Science", Peter Passell - "Dangerous, but Important", Richard Nisbett - "A Dystopian Fable", Michael Stern - "The Heart of the Matter", Joe Chidley 2. SOURCES AND POLEMICS - "Tainted Sources", Charles Lane - "The Curious Laird of Nigg", Magnus Linklater - "Inside the Pioneer Fund", John Sedgwick - "Professors of Hate", Adam Miller - "The Rushton File", Irving Louis Horowitz - "Theories of East Asian Superiority", Barry Sautman - "Ireland's "Low" IQ: A Critique", Ciaran Benson 3. OPINIONS AND TESTIMONIES - "A Long Tradition", E.J. Dionne, Jr. - "The Truth about Asian Americans", Margaret Chon - "For Whom the Bell Curve Really Tolls", Tim Beardsley - "A Triumph of Packaging", David M. Kutzik - "Throwing a Curve", Bob Herbert - "Born to Lose", DeWayne Wickham - "Branded", Gary Earl Ross - "Timing Is Everything", Salim Muwakkil - "Intellectual Brown Shirts", Adolph Reed, Jr. - "Breaking Ranks", Hugh Pearson - "Defining Race", Steve A. Holmes - "Too Clever by Half", The Economist - "Correlation as Causation", David Suzuki - "Blood Simple", Carl Rowan - "Resurgent Racism", Cynthia Tucker - "So What!", Tom Christie - "The Limits of IQ", William Raspberry - "The IQ Cult", Brent Staples - "A Large and Enduring Market", Nell Irvin Painter - "Lessons of _The Bell Curve_", Christopher Winship - "Right Is Right", Elizabeth Austin - "Straightening Out _The Bell Curve_" - "On Not Getting It", Roger E. Hernandez - "Minority Report", Christopher Hitchens - "Get Smart", Mike Walter - "Ethnicity, Genetics, and Cuteness", Bruce McCall 4. CONSERVATIVE COMMENTARY AND CRITIQUE - "Legacy of Racism", Pat Shipman - "Living with Inequality", Eugene D. Genovese - "Paroxysms of Denial", Arthur R. Jensen - "Is Intelligence Fixed?", Nathan Glazer - "Methodological Fetishism", Brigitte Berger - "Dispirited", Glenn C. Loury - "The Multicultural Trap", Charles Krauthammer - "Back to the Future", Richard Lynn - "A Moral Imperative", Douglas J. Besharov - "Restoration Man", Peter Brimelow 5.. THE PRESS SPEAKS OUT - "The Bellicose Curve", Christian Science Monitor - "A High Ignorance Quotient", Boston Globe - "Dead-End Curve", St. Louis Post-Dispatch - "What's at Stake", Buffalo News - "The _Bell Curve_ Agenda", New York Times - "IQ and Social Justice", Los Angeles Times - "IQ Is Not Destiny", Business Week ROOT AND BRANCH: THE HISTORY 6. ORIGINS AND IMPLICATIONS - "Hereditary Talent and Character (1865)", Francis Galton - "On Breeding Good Stock (1903)", Karl Pearson - "Genius, Fame, and Race (1897)", Charles H. Cooley - "The Negro (1911)", Encyclopaedia Britannica 7. TESTING AMERICA'S INTELLIGENCE - "Eugenics Comes to America", Garland E. Allen - "The Pioneers of IQ Testing", Leon J. Kamin - "Black Intellectuals on IQ Tests", William B. Thomas - "The Measurement of Intelligence (1916)", Lewis M. Terman - "The Rising Tide of Color (1920)", Lothrop Stoddard - "The Mental Age of Americans (1922)", Walter Lippmann - "A Future for the Tests (1922)", Walter Lippmann - "A Study of American Intelligence (1923)", Carl C. Brigham - "What the Army 'Intelligence' Tests Measured (1924)", Horace M. Bond 8. THE RETURN OF THE REPRESSED - "IQ", Richard J. Herrnstein - "The Differences Are Real", Arthur R. Jensen - "Differences Are Not Deficits", Theodosius Dobzhansky - "Jensen and Educational Differences", Carl Bereiter - "Science or Superstition?", David Layzer - Further Reading - Permissions Acknowledgments - Index