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."
Jefferson M. Fish
"This ambitious, well-edited, and well-researched collection
provides a comprehensive response to so-called 'scientific'
theories regarding differences in innate intelligence among
humans....What makes this volume highly useful...is its
multidisciplinary focus, clear organization, accessibility, and
thorough documentation. Recommended for all levels."
—CHOICE"Race and Intelligence is an important book and makes a
significant and major contribution to the literature in this area.
It presents a convincing body of evidence to show that race is a
non-scientific, non-biological concept that is best understood as a
folk taxonomy. Moreover, it shows that efforts to demonstrate
differences in intelligence between the so-called races is
pointless, since race is a fiction and extant definitions of
intelligence are problematic. The debate on the ontological status
of race and its merits as an analytic category in the social
sciences and in other fields will no doubt continue for some time
to come, but this book goes some distance towards bringing the
debate to an early conclusion."
—no source"Race and Intelligence: Separating Science From Myth is
an up-to-date, engaging, and definitive treatment of the
relationship between intelligence and 'race.' Most importantly, it
shows that race is a socially constructed rather than biological
category and hence that it is not even meaningful at a biological
level to speak of relations between race and intelligence. This
book is must reading for psychologists, educators, anthropologists,
and policymakers interested in group differences in
intelligence."
—Robert Sternberg, Ph.D.
Yale University"With the rapid growth of the new field of
evolutionary psychology following publication of the Bell Curve
(1994), dozens of new books have appeared to criticize the notion
of inborn racial differences in cognitive ability. Sadly, these
books have varied greatly in quality, sometimes constituting little
more than the politically correct opinions of their authors. I find
this new 400-page volume edited by psychologist Jefferson Fish
clearly stands out in several ways, as probably the most
penetrating book available to date arguing against TBC and the
hereditarian position. Each of its 15 well-coordinated chapters is
written by a recognized leader in a discipline--anthropology,
biology, economics, history, philosophy, sociology, statistics, as
well as psychology. As a result, the book contains much
authoritative cutting-edge information on five separate aspects of
the controversy--the concepts of race, racism, genetics,
intelligence, and psychological testing today. Those seeking an
authoritative critique of the hereditarian position cannot find a
more cogent and scholarly book than Race and Intelligence, which is
sure to raise this controversy to a new level of debate in coming
years."
—Harold Takooshian, Ph.D.
Fordham University
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