Race and Intelligence - Separating Science From Myth

This bk offers the most comprehensive & definitive response thus far to claims of innate differences in intelligence among races. The distinguished authors, representing a range of relevant disciplines, show that the human species has no "races" in the/P>

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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."

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Jefferson M. Fish

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This bk offers the most comprehensive & definitive response thus far to claims of innate differences in intelligence among races. The distinguished authors, representing a range of relevant disciplines, show that the human species has no "races" in the

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• Con la collaborazione di: Jefferson M Fish (Editore), Fish Jefferson M. (Editore)
• Editore: Taylor and Francis
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 01.08.2001
• EAN: 9780805837575
• ISBN: 978-0-8058-3757-5
• Pagine: 454
• Peso: 1000 g
• Categorie: Saggistica > Psicologia, esoterismo, spiritualità, antroposofia > Psicologia: tematiche generali, opere di consultazione; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Pedagogia > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie; Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies, PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social, group or collective psychology, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, Intelligence & reasoning, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Biracial & Multiracial Studies