26 Race And Intelligence, Part 2

Speaking of Race

In this episode, we continue the series on race and intelligence by heading across the pond to discuss work of the knighted psychologist, Sir Cyril Burt, and the two British ex-pats who worked in the U.S., psychometrician Raymond Cattell and anthropologist Ashley Montagu. Transcript: http://speakingofrace.ua.edu/uploads/1/1/0/5/110557873/race_and_intelligence_part_2.pdf Some Resources: Cattell, R. B. (1933). Psychology and social progress: Mankind and destiny from the standpoint of a scientist. London: C.W. Daniel. Dobzhansky, T. and M. F. Ashley Montagu. (1947). Natural Selection and the Mental Capacities of Mankind. Science, 105(2736), 587-90. Jensen, A. R. (1974). Kinship correlations reported by Sir Cyril Burt. Behavior Genetics, 4(1), 1-28. Kamin, Leon J. (1974). The Science and Politics of I.Q. Social Research 41(3), 387-425. For those who never saw him, here’s Montagu talking anthropology, although nothing to do with race: Ashley Montagu on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson (Sept. 13, 1974). Montagu, Ashley. (1962). The Concept of Race. American Anthropologist 64(5), 919-28. Montagu, Ashley, ed. (1974). Race and IQ. New York: Oxford University Press. Montagu, M.F.A. (1942). Man’s Most Dangerous Myth: The Fallacy of Race. New York: Columbia University Press. Montagu, MF Ashley. (1945). Intelligence of Northern Negroes and Southern Whites in the First World War. The American Journal of Psychology 58(2), 161-88. Sperling, Susan. (2000). Ashley Montagu (1905–1999). American Anthropologist 102(3), 583-88. Thompson, Matthew. (1998). The Problem of Mental Deficiency: Eugenics, Democracy, and Social Policy in Britain, c.1870-1959. New York: Oxford-Clarendon Press. Tucker, W. H. (2010). The Cattell controversy: Race, science, and ideology. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press.