Heredity, Race and Society

HEREDITY, ENVIRONMENT, AND RACE DIFFERENCES IN IQ A Commentary on Rushton and Jensen (2005)

J. P. Rushton and A. R. Jensen (2005) ignore or misinterpret most of the evidence of greatest relevance to the question of heritability of the Black–White IQ gap. A dispassionate reading of the evidence on the association of IQ with degree of European ancestry for members of Black populations, convergence of Black and White IQ in recent years, alterability of Black IQ by intervention programs, ...

Race and society in Portugal: two notes and a remark.

Race, diversity and pro-social behavior in a segmented society

This paper examines the impact of racial identity on behavior in trust games played by public high school students in South Africa. There is a systematic pattern of distrust towards Black partners, even by Black proposers, partially attributable to mistaken expectations. Non-Black proposers are significantly less likely to engage in a strategic interaction at all when paired with a Black partne...

Reconstructing race in science and society: biology textbooks, 1952-2002.

How has growing knowledge about human genetics affected how American textbooks present race? This article analyzes 80 biology textbooks published from 1952 to 2002 to reveal that U.S. biology texts have pursued the topic of race with renewed vigor in recent years. Moreover, textbooks have redefined race as genetic without furnishing empirical evidence for this framing. The textbooks' transforma...

Commentary on the meaning of race in science and society.

Introduction Quite recently, I had a personal experience that underscored why we must constantly revisit the issue of race in America. I went to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in search of information about my great-great grandfather. I knew he was a slave in Raleigh, North Carolina who bought his freedom in 1838 and called himself “Freeman” because he was free. I also knew the...