Word: hernnstein
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Third World women are confronted not only with the sexual stereotypes which afflict all women at Harvard but with the racism that pervades the institution, overtly expressed by racists like Richard J. Hernnstein and Bernard D. Davis, and covertly by the Harvard Administration through its efforts to undermine the Afro-American Studies Department. This last example is of particular importance to the question of Women's Studies. The Afro-American Studies Department was established in 1969 in response to demands made by black students for a curriculum relevant to their lives, fulfilling their desire to understand the particularities of national...
Second, the descriptions I read of the activity of the opponents of Herrnstein's analysis certainly struck me as forms of harassment. I also consider the content of some placards and leaflets used to express opposition to Hernnstein as unacceptable forms of opposition in a university community...
...Hernnstein's article maintains that intelligence is 80 per cent hereditary, and that the I.Q. test is an adequate test of intelligence...
Alan J. Garfinkel, a graduate student and UAG member, opposed Newman, and said Hernnstein's article was "hardline racism, but more palitable to the community" since it gives the public a statistical basis for prejudice...
...Hernnstein said that the predicted problem of chronically unemployed workers could be handled "benevolently. To tell you the truth, I'm really out of my field in this area. All I was trying to do was to show the way I saw things going and what might be realistic to expect in the future...