The concept of race
In this Hitchcock Lecture from UC Berkeley, evolutionary geneticist Richard Lewontin reviews a number of studies on the genetic differentiation between individuals within local populations, of local...
View ArticleRace without racism
Es sind interessante Zeiten für Anthropologen: In der Ausgabe 337 der Zeitschrift “Science” vom 7.9.2012 findet sich auf Seite 1174 folgende interessante Erkenntnis: “… Announcing the completion of the...
View ArticleArthur R. Jensen, Who Set Off Debate on I.Q., Dies
Arthur R. Jensen, an educational psychologist who ignited an international firestorm with a 1969 article suggesting that the gap in intelligence-test scores between black and white students might be...
View ArticleHow the race, intelligence, and genetics question will semi-resolve
Prompted by my post Ta-Nehisi Coates reached out to Neil Risch for clarification on the nature (or lack thereof) of human races. All for the good. The interview is wide ranging, and I recommend you...
View ArticleThe Cleanest Race
For years, North Korea watchers who speak no Korean have been confidently telling the world what motivates Kim Jong-Il. But in The Cleanest Race, B.R. Myers, a North Korea analyst and contributing...
View ArticleRace still matters online
Usually, research findings on the state of U.S. race relations are pretty bleak. But a study of online dating by UC San Diego sociologist Kevin Lewis suggests that racial barriers to romance are not...
View ArticleWhy race as a biological construct matters
My own inclination has been to not get bogged down in the latest race and IQ controversy because I don’t have that much time, and the core readership here is probably not going to get any new...
View ArticleRace, IQ, and Wealth
At the end of April, Charles Kenny, a former World Bank economist specializing in international development, published a blistering attack in Foreign Policy entitled “Dumb and Dumber,” with the...
View ArticleRace relations affected by where you live
People’s racial prejudices are influenced by where they live, reports a new study led by Oxford University psychologists. The researchers found that levels of racial prejudice among white people drop...
View ArticleOnline dating statistics reveal users still have racial biases
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