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The Smart Culture Society Intelligence and Law

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    A Paperback / softback by Robert L. Hayman, Jr.

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      Publisher: New York University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/08/2000
      ISBN13: 9780814735343, 978-0814735343
      ISBN10: 0814735347

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      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review
      Powerful. -- Mary Frances Berry * Journal of American History *
      Robert Hayman writes passionately and sensitively about our attitudes toward intelligence and how those attitudes shape the conditions of social equality in this country. . . . Intelligence is one area where Americans have remained relatively complacent about outmoded stereotypes and caste-like social structures. With this book, perhaps they will be no longer. -- J. M. Balkin,Lafayette S. Foster Professor, Yale Law School
      A passionate attack on pervasive American cultural assumptions of natural inequality. The book provides a fine history of antiblack discrimination and of the racist and nativist bases of the developers of standardized intelligence tests. * Choice *
      A painstakingly researched, scientific, psychological, sociocultural, and constitutional history of race, Smart Culture is one of our generation's most powerful indictments of insidious racism and meritocracies. * Law and Politics Book Review *

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