The bell curve wars : race, intelligence, and the future of America / Steven Fraser, editor.

New York : BasicBooks, [1995], ©1995.

vi, 216 pages ; 21 cm

Includes bibliographical references.

Curveball / Stephen Jay Gould -- Cracking open the IQ box / Howard Gardner -- Race, IQ, and scientism / Richard Nisbett -- The sources of The bell curve / Jeffrey Rosen and Charles Lane -- Paradise miscalculated / Dante Ramos -- Ethnicity and IQ / Thomas Sowell -- Back to the future with The bell curve : Jim Crow, slavery, and G / Jacqueline Jones -- Why now? / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. -- Caste, crime, and precocity / Andrew Hacker -- Has there been a cognitive revolution in America? : the flawed sociology of The bell curve / Alan Wolfe -- Hearts of darkness / John B. Judis -- The "it-matters-little" gambit / Mickey Kaus -- Scientific truth and the American dilemma / Nathan Glazer -- Equality : an endangered faith / Martin Peretz -- The lowerers / Leon Wieseltier -- Developing the rage to win / Hugh Pearson -- Brave new right / Michael Lind -- The phony war / Randall Kennedy -- For whom the bell curves / Orlando Patterson.