The Bell Curve Debate: History, Documents, Opinions

- Acknowledgement
- Introduction
- HUE AND CRY: THE DEBATE
1. REVIEWS AND ARGUMENTS
- \"Mismeasure by Any Measure\", Stephen Jay Gould
- \"Apocalypse Now?\", Alan Ryan
- \"Blacktop Basketball and _The Bell Curve_\" Gregg Easterbrook
- \"The Median Is the Message\", Ellen Willis
- \"Clever Arguments, Atrocious Science\", John Carey
- \"Skin-Deep Science\", Jim Holt
- \"Scholarly Brinkmanship\", Howard Gardner
- \"Innumeracy\", K.C. Cole
- \"Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics\", Leon J. Kamin
- \"Sermon as Science\", Peter Passell 
- \"Dangerous, but Important\", Richard Nisbett
- \"A Dystopian Fable\", Michael Stern
- \"The Heart of the Matter\", Joe Chidley
2. SOURCES AND POLEMICS
- \"Tainted Sources\", Charles Lane
- \"The Curious Laird of Nigg\", Magnus Linklater
- \"Inside the Pioneer Fund\", John Sedgwick
- \"Professors of Hate\", Adam Miller
- \"The Rushton File\", Irving Louis Horowitz
- \"Theories of East Asian Superiority\", Barry Sautman
- \"Ireland\'s \"Low\" IQ: A Critique\", Ciaran Benson
3. OPINIONS AND TESTIMONIES
- \"A Long Tradition\", E.J. Dionne, Jr.
- \"The Truth about Asian Americans\", Margaret Chon
- \"For Whom the Bell Curve Really Tolls\", Tim Beardsley
- \"A Triumph of Packaging\", David M. Kutzik
- \"Throwing a Curve\", Bob Herbert
- \"Born to Lose\", DeWayne Wickham
- \"Branded\", Gary Earl Ross
- \"Timing Is Everything\", Salim Muwakkil
- \"Intellectual Brown Shirts\", Adolph Reed, Jr.
- \"Breaking Ranks\", Hugh Pearson
- \"Defining Race\", Steve A. Holmes
- \"Too Clever by Half\", The Economist
- \"Correlation as Causation\", David Suzuki
- \"Blood Simple\", Carl Rowan
- \"Resurgent Racism\", Cynthia Tucker
- \"So What!\", Tom Christie
- \"The Limits of IQ\", William Raspberry
- \"The IQ Cult\", Brent Staples
- \"A Large and Enduring Market\", Nell Irvin Painter
- \"Lessons of _The Bell Curve_\", Christopher Winship
- \"Right Is Right\", Elizabeth Austin
- \"Straightening Out _The Bell Curve_\"
- \"On Not Getting It\", Roger E. Hernandez
- \"Minority Report\", Christopher Hitchens
- \"Get Smart\", Mike Walter
- \"Ethnicity, Genetics, and Cuteness\", Bruce McCall
4. CONSERVATIVE COMMENTARY AND CRITIQUE
- \"Legacy of Racism\", Pat Shipman
- \"Living with Inequality\", Eugene D. Genovese
- \"Paroxysms of Denial\", Arthur R. Jensen
- \"Is Intelligence Fixed?\", Nathan Glazer
- \"Methodological Fetishism\", Brigitte Berger
- \"Dispirited\", Glenn C. Loury
- \"The Multicultural Trap\", Charles Krauthammer
- \"Back to the Future\", Richard Lynn
- \"A Moral Imperative\", Douglas J. Besharov
- \"Restoration Man\", Peter Brimelow
5.. THE PRESS SPEAKS OUT
- \"The Bellicose Curve\", Christian Science Monitor 
- \"A High Ignorance Quotient\", Boston Globe 
- \"Dead-End Curve\", St. Louis Post-Dispatch 
- \"What\'s at Stake\", Buffalo News 
- \"The _Bell Curve_ Agenda\", New York Times 
- \"IQ and Social Justice\", Los Angeles Times 
- \"IQ Is Not Destiny\", Business Week 
ROOT AND BRANCH: THE HISTORY
6. ORIGINS AND IMPLICATIONS
- \"Hereditary Talent and Character (1865)\", Francis Galton 
- \"On Breeding Good Stock (1903)\", Karl Pearson 
- \"Genius, Fame, and Race (1897)\", Charles H. Cooley 
- \"The Negro (1911)\", Encyclopaedia Britannica 
7. TESTING AMERICA\'S INTELLIGENCE 
- \"Eugenics Comes to America\", Garland E. Allen 
- \"The Pioneers of IQ Testing\", Leon J. Kamin 
- \"Black Intellectuals on IQ Tests\", William B. Thomas
- \"The Measurement of Intelligence (1916)\", Lewis M. Terman
- \"The Rising Tide of Color (1920)\", Lothrop Stoddard 
- \"The Mental Age of Americans (1922)\", Walter Lippmann
- \"A Future for the Tests (1922)\", Walter Lippmann
- \"A Study of American Intelligence (1923)\", Carl C. Brigham
- \"What the Army \'Intelligence\' Tests Measured (1924)\", Horace M. Bond 
8. THE RETURN OF THE REPRESSED 
- \"IQ\", Richard J. Herrnstein 
- \"The Differences Are Real\", Arthur R. Jensen 
- \"Differences Are Not Deficits\", Theodosius Dobzhansky
- \"Jensen and Educational Differences\", Carl Bereiter
- \"Science or Superstition?\", David Layzer 
- Further Reading 
- Permissions Acknowledgments 
- Index