Word: racists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...STUDY ON RACE RELATIONS at Harvard College, released in May 1980, found that about 20 per cent of all undergraduates believed in the intellectual inferiority of minority students. Yet the study did not simply evince prejudice, because some minorities also expected poorer academic performance by non-whites. The racist attitude appeared even though most polled students had had little ability to measure intelligence; cultural assimilation, not education, accounted for their views. Harvard students reflected an American conviction that other races are inherently less intelligent than the Caucasian...
...Geology, studiously undermines the more famous research of this genre in The Mismeasure of Man. He examines past studies of human being's intellitence with the perspicuity expected of a careful scientist, showing where other researchers have erred before. He acquired the data that others had used to reach racist conclusions, recalculated the computations and reveals the mistakes and incorrect assumptions. Gould's reopening of the 19th- and early-20th-century studies could help close an era of racist preconceptions about intelligence...
...successfully debunks many "scientifically" accurate studies. Yet the public may not become aware of Gould's analysis, because his criticisms do not correspond to what people want to believe--in their own superiority. Students read the Harvard Race Relations report and found nothing new: merely some of the same racist perceptions that have prevailed for centuries. This book, by "truthifying" history, could erode some of these prejudices...
...Souza said that Ralph Manuel, dean of the college, wrote a letter accusing the paper of printing "racist, sexist and ethnic slurs and other matter of obviously bad taste." Review editors hope Reagan's letter will answer such criticism, D'Souza said...
...schoolteacher, believes racism is rampant among whites. He worked with many whites who toned down their bigotry, "but it always surfaces." He condemns the lack of interracial communication. "In South Africa, it's racism that's reinforced by ignorance and the fact that when you're born into a racist society, you don't have a chance to make your own judgements," he said. Denis Beckett, editor of the new liberal monthly Frontline, offers a caveat. White South Africans are in his view no more racist that whites elsewhere. "When I go abroad, half the people I meet say things...