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sports, race, and IQ...
• 'Blacks' do not have a genetic advantage in sports.
• 'Blacks' do not have a genetic intellectual disadvantage.
• Human races do not exist.
• The IQ literature is a series of frauds.
BOOK SUMMARY
Some academics and others peddle pseudo-science in order to allege that blacks are good at sports and bad at thinking. Resurrecting Racism answers them with proper science. The first half of the book shows that blacks do not have superior sports ability and that biologists, using the latest genetic data, have concluded that human races do not exist, contrary to what racists would like to believe. The second half of the book (beginning in chapter 6) traces the history of IQ testing, documenting that the IQ literature was built by committing outright fraud. IQ 'research' has been used to allege that blacks have inferior 'intelligence,' but those who developed the IQ literature turned the purpose of the original tests upside down, twisted their statistics, made up their math, and invented nonexistent researchers, publishing fake studies under phony names. These 'researchers' were also the major propagandists of the eugenics movement, which movement is responsible for creating the German Nazis. This is also documented in the second half of Resurrecting Racism, as is the fact that today's IQ 'researchers' continue this fraudulent and dangerous tradition.
Resurrecting Racism: The modern attack on black people using phony science. by Francisco Gil-White © 2004
Table of Contents: http://www.hirhome.com/rr/rrcontents.htm
Introduction
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http://www.hirhome.com/rr/rrintro.htm
An attempt is being made once again to sell Americans an old idea that has had terrible consequences: the allegation that black people are supposedly inferior to whites.
The
salespeople involved in this campaign deny that they are propagandists for racism. They are just
trying to popularize the findings of science, they claim. Modern science
has discovered, they allege, that many commonly held beliefs about race in
general and the black
‘race’ in particular are accurate. They say that
the only reason some people reject their supposed findings is political correctness.
If this
reminds you of something, you are probably thinking of recent attempts to
make antisemitism seem academically respectable. As historian Deborah
Lipstadt has made clear, modern professional antisemites publish journals
and books which mimic the style of argument and referencing used in
academia.[1] With
the pretense that they are making scholarly corrections of accepted views
concerning the German Nazi treatment of Jews, these people publish lies
and incoherencies to the effect that the Shoah (the WWII Holocaust)
supposedly never happened or was nowhere near as bad as people think. Such
lies are easily exposed by anybody who checks the references, as Lipstadt
has demonstrated. The problem is that laypeople (those without academic
degrees in the subject) don’t usually
check references, which is why this strategy is effective in sowing doubt
among laypeople. The biggest impact is on those who were already inclined
to dislike Jews but who kept their antisemitism in check because they felt
that the Jews had been victimized enough.
The
phenomenon of pseudo-scholarly anti-black racism should be examined as
carefully as its twin, Holocaust denial. Professional anti-black racists
resort to fake-science tactics similar to those of antisemites,
likewise parading themselves as innocent seekers of knowledge. Whereas
Holocaust deniers do their work by peddling false History, modern
anti-black racists peddle false biology and psychology. Just as the
proper antidote to pseudo-historical antisemitism is accurate History, the
proper antidote to modern, pseudo-biological anti-black racism is genuine
biological and psychological science
I am trained as a biological anthropologist, covering the
areas of population biology and
evolutionary theory—the very disciplines relevant to the claims of the
‘scientific’ racists. But I am also trained as a cultural
anthropologist, that is to say, as an ethnographer, and I do my field work in
western Mongolia (province of Hovd), studying the manner in which
neighboring ethnic populations perceive and think about each other.
Because my anthropological work has been heavily psychological, I have made a special focus of the issue of categorization:
that is, I have sought to understand how and why people
construct categories of
‘race’ which they incorrectly believe to be
biologically real.[1a] As an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of
Pennsylvania, I have taught a course devoted to examining how racists
convince ordinary people of their claims by exploiting certain cognitive
susceptibilities that make humans relatively easy targets for racist
appeals. The combination of my background and my interests, then, gives
me a few advantages when it comes to evaluating the claims of today’s
self-proclaimed ‘race scientists,’
something that I will do in
Resurrecting
Racism.
These modern ‘race scientists,’ as they call themselves, do not always present their ideas as clearly as they might, so I will make a special effort to render their arguments transparent. Then I will ask some questions of these arguments. Are they logical? Are they even coherent? Are they supported or in fact disproved by the data they themselves invoke?
No special requirement must be fulfilled to understand my book. It was written for the layperson, and no previous knowledge of evolutionary biology, psychology, anthropology, or genetics is necessary. Everything that is necessary from these disciplines will be explained in such a way that it is fun to read and easy to understand. Without sacrificing scholarly rigor (you will find in my footnotes the source material for all of my claims), I have nevertheless tried hard to keep my style friendly, conversational, and simple, and also to structure my story so that it produces an interesting voyage of discovery. But I cannot take credit for the main thrill, which has to do with the content of what I report: just as geographers now know that the world is not flat, biologists now know that the ideas about race commonly held by laypeople are wrong because the human species is too uniform to be divided into races. In other words, human races do not exist. There is therefore now another excellent reason for us not to be racists: it would be unscientific.
After explaining
why there are no human races, I will examine the claim made by many psychologists that IQ tests supposedly prove that the
black ‘race’ is less intelligent than the white and I will
demonstrate again that this claim is a fraud. I say ‘again’ because
showing that there is neither a black nor a
white race already requires that IQ tests cannot show the ‘black race’
to be less
intelligent than the ‘white’—since there is no black race, and there
is no white race. My second demonstration that IQ tests do not
support the arguments of racists is as follows: I will show that IQ tests do not even
measure inborn ‘intelligence,’
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Because one purpose of my book is to show that there is a well-organized attack against blacks, pushed by the US Establishment, I have structured my book as a refu