num_pages: 221
description: The 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision required desegregation of America's schools but it also set in motion an agonizing multidecade debate over race class and IQ. In this innovative book Michael E. Staub investigates neuropsychological studies published between Brown and the controversial 1994 book The Bell Curve . In doing so he illuminates how we came to view race and intelligence today.In tracing how research and experiments around such concepts as learned helplessness deferred gratification hyperactivity and emotional intelligence migrated into popular culture and government policy Staub reveals long-standing and widespread dissatisfactionnot least among middle-class whiteswith the metric of IQ. He also documents the devastating consequencesabove all for disadvantaged children of coloras efforts to undo discrimination and create enriched learning environments were recurrently repudiated and defunded. By connecting psychology race and public policy in a single narrative Staub charts the paradoxes that have emerged and that continue to structure investigations of racism even into the era of contemporary neuroscientific research.
language: English
title: The Mismeasure of Minds: Debating Race and Intelligence between Brown and The Bell Curve
publisher: The University of North Carolina Press