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This open access book examines the web of scientific, cultural, and political interests that influenced the writing of The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life and the contemporary currents that keep this controversial book in discussion. Published in 1994, The Bell Curve remains one of the most controversial social science books ever published due to its claim for genetic differences in intelligence among races which, while it repulsed many, resonated in some audiences and remains a touchstone in the social sciences today. Professor Tucker opens with an analysis of the role of race in The Bell Curve that provides a strong counter to the author’s claims that race played a minor role in the book or that it was agnostic to the question of the role of biology in causing race differences in education, intelligence, and socioeconomic success. He moves on to consider its emphasis on meritocracy, situating it within the history of Herrnstein’s own intellectual trajectory, as well as the connections to eugenics and psychology in the early 20th century. In the remaining chapters Professor Tucker examines The Bell Curve as part of an ongoing political project including a discussion of the way in which the attitudes fostered by the book can be seen to have played a role in the 2016 US election. It argues that by focusing attention exclusively on individual differences in cognitive ability as the source of inequality, it diverts attention from the more important structural variables that account for differences in people’s economic outcomes. This compelling analysis will appeal in particular to scholars and those with an interest in the history of scientific racism, the history of psychology and the sociology of knowledge and science.This is an open access book.
The Pioneer Fund, established in 1937 by Wickliffe Preston Draper,
is one of the most controversial nonprofit organizations in the
United States. Long suspected of misusing social science to fuel
the politics of oppression, the fund has specialized in supporting
research that seeks to prove the genetic and intellectual
inferiority of blacks while denying its ties to any political
agenda. This powerful and provocative volume proves that the
Pioneer Fund has indeed been the primary source for scientific
racism. Revealing a lengthy history of concerted and clandestine
activities and interests, "The Funding of Scientific Racism"
examines for the first time archival correspondence that
incriminates the fund's major players, including Draper, recently
deceased president Harry F. Weyher, and others.
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