Word: herrnsteins
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Cose covers a lot of ground, from Francis Galton's eugenics theory, which equated good English breeding with racial superiority, to contemporary social-so-called-science that has attempted to give racism a respectable face. It is no surprise that Exhibit A is Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray's controversial 1994 best seller, The Bell Curve. Cose joins the chorus of critics who rightly challenged the authors' credentials and ideological ties. "There is" for them, he says, "something comforting in the belief--even if it is rooted in fiction--that certain unfortunate realities are beyond our control, that certain unfortunate...
...Teachers' organizations take the position that because of the family background of their students, the public schools can't do any better," Peterson said. "This smacks of the pessimism of the Herrnstein position...
Peterson said the results of the study, "The Effectiveness of School Choice in Milwaukee," help to refute the claims of Charles A. Murray '65 and the late Richard J. Herrnstein in The Bell Curve that intelligence is determined in part by race...
Peterson added that a "primary motivation" in his decision to become involved in the study was his desire to stem the influence of Herrnstein and Murray's book on education policy...
...supposed" motivation behind past academic racism and present-day scholarly racial prejudice remains the same: protecting the United States (i.e., white Americans and some Asian groups) from the degenerate effects which would stem or have stemmed from letting blacks and Latinos into the body politic and social contract. Mansfield, Herrnstein, Murray and D'Souza argue that the academic rigors of society and Americans' competitiveness is decreasing because of the large number of undesirables and unqualifieds entering universities and jobs all around the country at the expense of bright whites and Asians. The argument reminds one of the segregationist platform...