Measured Lies,9780312172282

Measured Lies

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Edition: Reprint
ISBN13: 9780312172282
ISBN10: 0312172281
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1997-03-15
Publisher(s): Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary

In Measures Lies , the first thoughtful and reasoned reading of The Bell Curve , the editors have assembled a group of the most well-respected educators and social theorists writing today to provide responses to Hernstein and Murray's racial and intellectual agenda.

Table of Contents

Prelude ix
Aaron D. Gresson III
PART I INTRODUCING THE BELL CURVE
Who Said It Can't Happen Here?
3(48)
Joe L. Kincheloe
Shirley R. Steinberg
PART II SITUATING THE BELL CURVE
Dominance and Dependency: Situating The Bell Curve within the Conservative Restoration
51(20)
Michael W. Apple
The Bell Curve Debate and the Crisis of Public Intellectuals
71(20)
Henry A. Giroux
Susan Searls
The Ape's IQ
91(18)
Allen Shelton
PART III RESPONDING TO THE BELL CURVE: CHAPTER BY CHAPTER
The Set-up: Crocodile Tears for the Poor
109(18)
Phil Francis Carspecken
For Whom The Bell Tolls: A Cognitive or Educated Elite?
127(10)
Yvonna Lincoln
IQ as Commodity: The ``New'' Economics of Intelligence
137(24)
Richard Cary
In the Name of Science and of Genetics and of The Bell Curve: White Supremacy in American Schools
161(16)
Ladislaus Semali
Bad Luck, Bad Blood, Bad Faith: Ideological Hegemony and the Oppressive Language of Hoodoo Social Science
177(16)
Joyce E. King
Speculation Based on Speculation: The Problem of The Bell Curve and the Question of Schooling
193(10)
Jo Anne Pagano
Leaps of an Unjust Faith: Missing Links in the Causes of Labor Force Participation
203(8)
Townsand Price-Spratlen
Family Matters
211(8)
Alan A. Block
Don Stephenson
Genetic Rationalizations and Public Policy: Herrnstein and Murray on Intelligence and Welfare Dependency
219(8)
Maria R. Vidal
Parenting in the Promised Land
227(10)
William F. Pinar
Race, Repression, and the Politics of Crime and Punishment in The Bell Curve
237(14)
Stephen Nathan Haymes
The Last Rational Men: Citizenship, Morality, and the Pursuit of Human Perfection
251(14)
Cameron McCarthy
Ed Buendia
Carol Mills
Shuaib Meacham
Heriberto Godina
Carrie Wilson-Brown
Maria Seferian
Theresa Souchet
The Bell Curve, Intelligence, and Virtuous Jews
265(26)
Sander L. Gilman
Chaos and Complexity: A Quantum Analysis of The Bell Curve
291(12)
Patrick Slattery
Dysgenesis and White Culture
303(12)
Greg Tanaka
A Suburban Tale: Representation and Segregation in Special Needs Education
315(16)
Glenn M. Hudak
The Bell Curve and Transracial Adoption Studies
331(12)
William E. Cross, Jr.
White Supremacy and the Politics of Fear and Loathing
343(8)
Peter McLaren
The Bell Curve, Affirmative Action, and the Quest for Equity
351(16)
Robert M. Hendrickson
Attacking Affirmative Action: Social Darwinism as Public PRolicy
367(12)
Catherine A. Lugg
Questioning ``The Way We Are Headed''
379(12)
Kyle L. Peck
On Refusing One's Place: The Ditchdigger's Dream
391(14)
Deborah P. Britzman
Alice J. Pitt
PART IV TALKING ABOUT THE BELL CURVE
Interviewing and Finding Sound Bites
405(6)
Ronald E. Chennault
Shirley R. Steinberg
Interviews
411(12)
Interviews with Stanley Aronowitz
Shirley R. Steinberg
Interview with Ellen Willis
Joe L. Kincheloe
Scientism as a Form of Racism: A Dialogue
423(18)
Paulo Freire
Donald Macedo
Coda ``Cognitive Elitism'' versus Moral Courage
433(8)
Aaron D. Gresson III
Biographies 441(10)
Index 451

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