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"We know that caste-like minorities [minorities who accept society's view of themselves as inferior] have lower IQs than others," said Block "but when they emigrate to other countries, their IQ goes up to match other inhabitants of that country [who share their ethnicity or national origin but not...

Author: By Victoria E.M. Cain, | Title: MIT Philosophy Chair Criticizes Bell Curve | 4/14/1995 | See Source »

Murray ends his Wall Street Journal editorial (which is an excerpt from his forthcoming book) with a distressing conclusion: "Unchecked, these trends will lead the U.S. toward something resembling a caste society, with the underclass mired ever more firmly at the bottom and the cognitive elite ever more firmly anchored...

Author: By Brad EDWARD White, | Title: Dangerous Conservatism | 10/12/1994 | See Source »

His latest victory has left the tough-talking Seshan determined to "bash on," removing illegal immigrants from the voters' lists and setting up polling booths in areas where low-caste people and minorities can vote without fear. But Congress has not given up either. The government says that next month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Master of The Polls | 6/27/1994 | See Source »

Boyd would tend, in later life, to work in narrative series. In his homeland, probably the best known of them is a set of paintings mostly from 1957-58, done after visiting the squalid aboriginal encampments in central Australia made for people exiled within their own country and between two...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ART: Arthur Boyd, Seeking The Wild | 5/2/1994 | See Source »

So the ostensible purpose, presented always in a sanctimonious tone, is, well, just phony. The operational purpose is, I'm afraid, far more complicated. Complicated because the explanation lies deep within that contorted, humanistically twisted and evil past trajectory of slavery and racial-caste oppression along which we Blacks have...

Author: By Martin L. Kilson jr., | Title: Reviving a Humanistic Legacy | 2/11/1994 | See Source »

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