Race and Intelligence - Fallacies Behind the Race-IQ Controversy by Richardson, Ken and David Spears, Editors - 1972

San Diego, CA: Penguin - Pelican, 1972. Mass Market Paperback. Good. Roy La Grone Cover. 205 pages indexed. Book has a square, tight binding with bright pages. Corner cover creases. Book appears to be free from any apparent marks or underlining. Photographic cover of mixed racial school children setting. A look at the fallacies behind the race-IQ controversy. ... What are the relations between racial background and mental ability? Are differences between black and white people in the kind of intelligence that IQ tests measure due to genetic inheritance? Can differences in social class be explained in the same way? The controversy over these questions has recently been revived by Arthur Jensen and by H. J. Eysenck. Few issues have stirred such heated debate, and none has graver implications for the individual, for educational policy, and for social justice. No answers can be attempted without first grappling with the concepts that lie behind the questions. The aim of Race and Intelligence is to do just that: to disentangle the four central notions of intelligence, race, heredity, and environment in contributions from psychology, biology, and sociology. The essays in this volume do not falsify complexities, yet they offer guidance that even a non-specialist can follow. The book you see in the images is the actual book we have for sale. Why pay more? When you buy this book from us, you are helping to support a small brick and mortar family owned store. We have been curating our collection for three generations and currently have over 250,000 volumes in stock. Please feel free to call for more stock.