Mismeasure of Minds
Subtitle: Debating Race and Intelligence Between Brown and the Bell Curve
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9781469643595
Subjects: Intellect; Intelligence levels; Intelligence tests; Racism; Eugenics; Educational psychology; School integration; Segregation in education
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 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"--