This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the controversy surrounding the relationship between race and intelligence. It presents a balanced approach that incorporates perspectives from psychology, biology, and sociology. Readers could appreciate the book's insights into the complexity of this vexing issue.

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Editor: Ken Richardson and David Spears
Publisher: Penguin Books, 1972
Condition: Softcover, yellowed pages, some wear and tear to cover, minor markings and foxing on pages, interior clean
From the back of the book:

Are differences between black and white people in the kind of intelligence that IQ tests measure due mainly to genetic inheritance? Can social-class differences be explained in the same way?

Few questions have stirred so much heated debate as the controversy, revived by an article by Arthur Jensen in 1969, over the origins of mental ability - and no question has graver implications for the individual, for educational policy, and for social justice.

No answers, counter-questions (not least perhaps about the reasons for the question itself) can be attempted without first grappling with the concepts that lie behind it. The aim of Race, Culture and Intelligence is to do just that: to disentangle in turn the four central notions of intelligence, race, heredity and environment in contributions from psychology, biology and sociology that do not falsify the complexities of the issues, yet offer guidance that the non-specialist can follow.

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