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Title:

The bell curve wars : race, intelligence, and the future of America / Steven Fraser, editor.

Publisher:

BasicBooks,

Copyright Date:

c1995

Description:

vi, 216 p. ; 21 cm.

Subject:

Intellect.
Nature and nurture.
Intelligence levels--United States.
Intelligence levels--Social aspects--United States.
Herrnstein, Richard J.--Bell curve.
Educational psychology.
Herrnstein, Richard J.--Bell curve.
Intelligence--Collected Works.
Continental Population Groups--Collected Works.
Psychology, Educational--Collected Works.
Social Class--Collected Works.
Intelligentie.
Erfelijkheid en omgeving.
Rassen (mens)
Etnische groepen.
The bell curve (Herrnstein)

Other Authors:

Fraser, Steve, 1945-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

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.

ISBN:

9780465006939
0465006930

LCCN:

95001880

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

JLPF081 -- Ericson Public Library (Boone)

KSPG296 -- Burlington Public Library (Burlington)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

OQAX737 -- Iowa Western Community College - Edith Lisle Library (Clarinda)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

PHAX277 -- Graceland University - Frederick Madison Smith Library (Lamoni)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)

PGAX715 -- Northwest Iowa Community College Library - Sheldon (Sheldon)

OUAX845 -- Dordt University (Sioux Center)

UTAX115 -- Buena Vista University Library (Storm Lake)