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The Bell Curve Wars

Race, Intelligence, and the Future of America

Steven Fraser author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Basic Books

Published:7th Apr '95

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Gustavus Myers Center Award for Outstanding Book on Human Rights

The distinguished contributors dismantle the alleged scientific foundations and criticize the alarming public policy conclusions of the book that has inflamed public debate.The Bell Curve by Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray has generated a firestorm of debate, confirming for some their secret belief in the innate inferiority of certain "races" or ethnic groups, angering many who view the book as an ill-concealed racist manifesto, and worrying untold others who fear the further racial polarization of American society. In The Bell Curve Wars , a group of our country's most distinguished intellectuals dismantles the alleged scientific foundations and criticizes the alarming public policy conclusions of this incendiary book.Anyone who has wondered about the connection among genes, race, and intelligence, all those anxious about racial antagonisms in our nation, those who question the efficacy of social welfare programs, all those troubled but unconvinced by Herrnstein and Murray's book, will want to read The Bell Curve Wars.

ISBN: 9780465006939

Dimensions: 125mm x 202mm x 13mm

Weight: 222g

224 pages