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The mismeasure of minds : debating race and intelligence between Brown and The bell curve / Michael E. Staub.

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Publisher's description: The 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision required desegregation of America's schools, but it also set in motion an agonizing multi-decade debate over race, class, and IQ. In this innovative book, Michael E. Staub investigates neuropsychological studies publish...

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Main Author: Staub, Michael E. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2018]
Series:Studies in social medicine.
Subjects:
Brown, Oliver, > 1918-1961 > Trials, litigation, etc.
Herrnstein, Richard J. > Bell curve.
Topeka (Kan.). > Board of Education > Trials, litigation, etc.
Intellect > Social aspects > United States.
Intelligence levels > Social aspects > United States.
Intelligence tests > Social aspects > United States.
Racism > United States > Psychological aspects.
Intellect > Genetic aspects.
Eugenics > United States > History.
Educational psychology > United States.
School integration > United States.
Segregation in education > United States.
Brown, Oliver, > 1918-1961.
Topeka (Kan.). > Board of Education.
Educational psychology.
Eugenics.
Intellect > Social aspects.
Intelligence levels > Social aspects.
Intelligence tests > Social aspects.
Racism > Psychological aspects.
School integration.
Segregation in education.
Trials.
United States.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Plasticity of intelligence, education reform, and the disadvantaged child
  • Minimal brain dysfunction, Ritalin, and racial politics
  • The politics of cerebral asymmetry and racial difference
  • A racial history of emotional intelligence
  • Neuroscience, race, and intelligence after The bell curve
  • Afterword.

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