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...other campus news, a semi-secret Bow Streetorganization that was still occasionallypublishing a so-called humor magazine admits itsfirst two women staff members, and student groupsprotest the work of Psychology Professor RichardJ. Herrnstein...
...Herrnstein had written an article predictingthe stratification of society along IQ levels dueto the genetic inheritance of intelligence...
...lenders and insurance companies play a major role in perpetuating such segregation. Further-more, the black middle class must still struggle against a popular culture sickeningly distorted by rumors of black inferiority. Clear proof of this comes in the remarkable sales and on-going national public discussion of Richard Herrnstein's and Charles Murray's racist tract The Bell Curve. Is there any other segment of the "middle class" that must endure serious public debate of whether they are genetically less intelligent...
Harvard-Radcliffe Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) pickets outside a class taught by Professor of Psychology Richard J. Herrnstein. An article he wrote for the Atlantic Monthly justifies unemployment as the result of an inherited lack of mental ability, their leaflets charge. The protesters enter the lecture hall but do not disrupt his talk...
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...