The 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision required
desegregation of America's schools, but it also set in motion an
agonizing multidecade debate over race, class, and IQ. In this
innovative book, Michael E. Staub investigates neuropsychological
studies published between Brown and the controversial 1994 book The
Bell Curve. In doing so, he illuminates how we came to view race
and intelligence today. In tracing how research and experiments
around such concepts as learned helplessness, deferred
gratification, hyperactivity, and emotional intelligence migrated
into popular culture and government policy, Staub reveals
long-standing and widespread dissatisfaction-not least among
middle-class whites-with the metric of IQ. He also documents the
devastating consequences-above all for disadvantaged children of
color-as efforts to undo discrimination and create enriched
learning environments were recurrently repudiated and defunded. By
connecting psychology, race, and public policy in a single
narrative, Staub charts the paradoxes that have emerged and that
continue to structure investigations of racism even into the era of
contemporary neuroscientific research.
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