This is a review of Shelby Steel's recent book "Shame."
Overall, Steele serves up a disingenuous lightweight tome heavy on personal
anecdote but short on in-depth analysis. The book seems basically a retread of
his 2007 book "White Guilt" but with more personal details. This
rehashed tome also fails, and does so on 6 counts.
1) STEELE STUCK IN THE PAST WITH STALE, EVEN BOGUS ARGUMENTS:
Much of his analysis is standard conservative boilerplate on
the evils of liberalism, boilerplate we have all heard and read about for well
nigh 2 decades. He feels "liberals" are stuck in the past, using America
Affirmative action" for example has been watered down
to trivial proportions for well over a decade- from limits or restrictions
imposed by courts, to citizen initiatives like California's Prop 209 which took
place in 1996, OVER 20 YEARS AGO. Set aside programs have been much watered
down- since the 1980s both by legislative and executive action and by court
cases such as Adarand and Croson (circa 1989 and 1995), over 2 decades ago. The
notion that "the liberals" are somehow throwing America
And the flip side is that conservatives may be cynically
using such long weakened and ineffective policies and alleged "white
suffering" under "quotas" as a talking point, and mobilization
mechanism for their own purposes- to
keep their "base" in a perennial state of indignation. Furthermore
CONSERVATIVE scholars like his fellow black conservative Thomas Sowell has
shown that AA is not much responsible for black economic advance, which is a
long-standing trend since the 1950s. Steele and other conservatives know this
yet they still keep pushing the same bogus propaganda line re "affirmative
action." - like Ann Coulter in her recent book "Mugged."
2) STEELE LAMENTS "POLARIZATION" BUT CURIOUSLY
SKIPS OVER CONSERVATIVE POLARIZATION TACTICS.
Let's look at such tactics- take welfare. Are "the liberals" using government programs like "welfare"
as a mechanism to "grab" power? This old, stale charge is so laughably
out of date that it doesn't deserve comment, yet for Steele, and other
conservative dinosaurs, it is a virtual article of faith. Indeed several polls
of white Americans seem them clinging to the notion that most black people are
on welfare, when in fact only about 14% of black Americans receive AFDC. You
wouldn't know this though from the barrage of right wing propaganda. And are
"the culluds" eating up more and more welfare by ye olde hardworking
white Amurricans? So it would seem according to the white right-wing propaganda mills, but
in fact when adjusted for inflation welfare benefits have actually DECLINED in
the 1980s and 1990s. Indeed it was a liberal Democrat, Clinton that enacted
welfare reform that reduced the rolls on into the 2000s. Furthermore, as several
studies show states with higher proportions of poor black recipients gave relatively LESS welfare than states with higher proportions of whitebeneficiaries- with whites being favored overall with more generous benefits-
even though the blacks were poorer. (Durr and Hill 2006- Race, Work, and Family
in the Lives of African Americans).
So with less people on welfare, with welfare benefits
declining, and with white people deriving more relative benefit from welfare,
why do conservatives continue to cynically and dishonestly feed the propaganda
mills grist about "all the blacks on welfare" and "increasing
government welfare" etc etc? We know why of course- so they can pump up
the white base and keep it perennially angry.
Examples can be easily multiplied here race is concerned, whether it be Goldwater and Nixon's cynical "southern Strategy," to bogus claims about "unqualified blacks" allegedly "swamping" workplaces due to "quotas." Steele spends a lot of time bashing "the liberals"
for "polarizing" America
3) STEELE SKIPS THE FACT THAT IT'S NOT ONLY LIBERALS WHO PLAY THE "VICTIM"
CARD BUT CONSERVATIVES AS WELL.
Steele asserts that liberals deal in "poetic
truth" as a reaction to the shames of America America
Steele also posits the late 1960s before "affirmative
action" as some sort of golden age, an age of "authority"
compared to the liberal initiated age of "authenticity." He
references white elites and the Black Panthers etc etc.. But all this is
laughably dated and obsolete, and time and time again, Steele appears stuck in
the past. His personal anecdotes as to growing up in the 1950s and so on, only
reinforce the case. In any event, conservatives quickly countered with their own version of "authenticity" - juxtaposing in Spiro Agnew's famous words, the "effete intellectual snobs" over against the solid, authentic citizens of "the silent majority." News flash to Steele who in the early 1970s was a well placed
academic at San Jose State University (San Jose State at the time was heavily recruiting minority professors under its own high pressure push or "affirmative action" program when Steele was hired), and could marry his white wife and float above the fray: it was no
"golden age." In fact it was a time of open racism and strong counter-reaction. Just ask
conservative favorite Richard Nixon when he tried to persuade white unions to
start complying with basic civil rights laws. They ignored or stonewalled him
to the point that an exasperated Nixon put the hammer down and inaugurated his
famous, (or infamous) landmark "affirmative action" Philadelphia Plan, that
actually forced racist white unions to open up previously "reserved"
jobs for whites to all Americans. Or just ask black workers denied promotions
or held back, or black job seekers locked out of the market by white racism, or
black housing seekers locked out decent accommodations. It took the hammer
blows of lawsuits, protests as well as shifting economic and demographic
circumstances to begin to effect change. The average black person did not have the
luxury of flitting about as a relatively well paid college professor in San Jose.
Steele also offers breathless statements such as that the desire
for equality has trumped freedom, virtue and honesty. This may be so in SOME
venues, as seen in SOME "PC"college campus excesses. But in others, the desire to preserve white privilege and sandbag black
progress has also trumped freedom, virtue and honesty. Steele himself warns his
readers not to naively assume that racism has disappeared, but he stops there, and can't candidly examine
the other side of the equation for that would undermine his whole
position and persona. There is nothing wrong with being a black conservative. The problem is finding an HONEST black conservative willing to speak candidly about the
right wing, and its distortions. To speak candidly would undermine their position,
and the support they get from the white right.
As for honesty and character being undermined by
preferential programs, this is so as to SOME instances, but there is the flip
side that again Steele ducks and avoids. To begin with, honesty and character were in some respects quite questionable under all-white preferential programs that bloomed in Steele's supposedly mo betta "age of authority". Second, what about honesty and character in conservative dealings on race? Or the white preference manipulations which
are as strong as ever today - from the quiet networks that ensure only white friends,
relatives and cronies "get the hookup", to the subtle policy manipulations
that price "the culluds" out of certain venues, to bureaucratic rules
that do the same, to numerous other subtle, behind the scenes webs of white manipulation and deception. Scholars have long detailed such things.
Again, Steele dare not open that can of worms, less his own burnished image as
a "straight talking" man of courage be exposed as less than
advertised.
4) STEELE AVOIDS THE CENTRAL FACT OF AMERICAN LIFE THAT
MOST WHITES FEEL NO "GUILT" OR "SHAME" AT ALL.
Most banish shame to a past era- long ago- hence the popular
white refrain: "I had nothing to do with owning slaves." This is the
default white position. Contrary to
Steele's notion, the detailed work of scholars like Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
(Racism Without Racists), for example, demonstrates in depth that whites are
mostly indifferent or in deep denial about any "shame." In fact in poll
after poll whites typically dismiss their own culpability or complicity in
creating racial inequality in America
Polls on discrimination - where's the alleged "white guilt"? Polls show relatively little evidence of any "guilt" re reparations, affirmative action etc on the part of whites. For example a CNN/USA
Today/Gallup Poll of 1001 adults, 820 white and 146 black in 2002 did not show
white people in any paroxysm of alleged "shame." 9 out of 10 white
Americans for example rejected reparations; 62% rejected any government apology
for legally permitting slavery. In the
1980s and beyond, polls shows consistently strong white opposition to
affirmative action. In five separate Gallup
But even poll data is not needed to cast doubt on Steele's notion of "white guilt." It is true that again and again, polls of whites suggest that whites think racial discrimination is something of the past. Most are not on any "guilt trip" at all. But white behavior on the ground also suggests that "guilt" is rather thin there.
Housing discrimination - where's the alleged "white guilt"? For example, whites have basically segregated off their schools (hence today's phenomenon of racially integrated schools declining) as well as their communities by various methods- from manipulating zoning and other legal controls designed to suppress the supply of housing, to "white flight" to the indirect "white price"- i.e. minorities being priced out of various venues by more affluent whites- hence less blacks and browns to hang around. Most whites feel no "guilt" about such things at all, debunking Steele's core notion about so-called "guilt trips."
Preferential treatment for whites in college admissions- where's the alleged "white guilt"? As far as the white trump card of complaint, alleged "white suffering" under "affirmative action", a recent 2010 Century Foundation study called "The Future of Affirmative Action" found that for every student of color who benefited at all from affirmative action at a selective college, there are two whites with lower scores and grades than the average, but who were admitted anyway because of family connections or parental alumni status. And as regards affirmative action (AA), the main beneficiaries are white women not blacks. But see, white people have no guilt at all in bashing blacks as being such lazy, exclusive beneficiaries of preferential treatment. And whites feel no guilt about the "legacy system" for elite universities, which in some places reserves up to 30% of the admission slots for mostly white alumni- a handy system that keeps out better performing Asians. Where is this burning "white guilt" re minorities Shelby Steele speaks off? Cue laughter..
Law enforcement discrimination - where's the alleged "white guilt"? On the law enforcement front, most whites don't feel "guilty" at all about policing practices that unfairly target blacks. Well into the late 1990s, into the 2000 and alive and well today via "Operation PIPELINE," police "profiling" practices continued to target black drivers out of proportion to their presence on the road, or any crimes committed. The infamous "black shakedown" seizures of money from black motorists by people like Sheriff Bob Vogel in Florida in the 1990s are just among the best known of several pernicious practices. White voters certainly felt little "guilt" despite widespread publicity of abuses. They returned Vogel twice to office. On other fronts municipalities continue to pay out millions in police brutality settlements every year, and whites are willing to pony up in their taxes to maintain the current system, rather than undertake serious police reform efforts that allegedly "guilty" people would undertake to fix a problem.
Employment discrimination - where's the alleged "white guilt"? On the employment front, one MIT study found that even when job applicants are equally qualified in terms of experience and education, applicants with white-sounding names are 50 percent more likely than those with black-sounding names to get a callback for an interview. Another found that white male job applicants with criminal records are more likely to get called back for an interview than black men without one, even when all other qualifications are indistinguishable (Wise 2009).
White dating relationships- where's the alleged "white guilt"? Surely all this guilt should mean more opportunities for black folk to date "guilty" whites, who to show their liberal sensitivity go along. NOT! Let's take the dating world. As far as the gay side, per several gay men of color who have researched and lived the issue, white gays are rather indifferent and sometimes even hostile towards their darker brethren, though of course there is variation in all communities. Says Chong-suk Han (2007-Quote): "Despite the civil rights dialogue used by the gay community, many ‘gay’ organizations and members of the ‘gay’ community continue to exclude men of color from leadership positions and ‘gay’ establishments, thus continuing to add to the notion that ‘gay’ equals ‘white’." Hmm, not a lot of "white guilt" there either. Nor does it show up on dating sites among straights. Surely all this "white guilt" Steele talks about should get black folk some love wouldn't it? Nope. Detailed analyses of dating sites show that as far as whites, blacks get the least amount of replies or attention. See Christian Rudder's 2014 book "Dataclysm" for a detailed analysis of OK Cupid for example, but it is a pattern that shows up on Match.com and other major sites. Thus the mystery: Where are all these "guilty" white people just a dyin to show black folk some love?
Legal system prosecutors stacking the deck against black defendants by excluding black jurors- where's the "white guilt"? Surely white defenders of our great constitutional idea of checks and balances and safeguards to ensure a fair jury trial should be shocked as how prosecutors time and time again stacked the deck against black defendants with rigged jury pools? Nope. When appeals courts pointed out the discriminatory anomalies and contradictions white legislators of some states had the law changed to bypass this.
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How Shelby Steele's meme collapses under any serious scrutiny - Again, one wonders, where is this wave of "white guilt" Shelby Steele keeps talking about? Black folk are scratching their heads, along with informed white independents. If anything, real data out there shows it is mostly indifference, or even hostility. But of course, Steele ducks around detailed discussion of ACTUAL white behavior, to pump up the weak "guilt" meme for his white conservative allies. And does anyone really believe that the deeply embedded white ethnic networks, the ones like the Irish or Italian networks that control hundreds of thousands of government jobs and that excluded and continue to partially exclude black people have any "guilt"? Or the cynical union bosses and rank and file? Are the significant white majorities opposed to affirmative action, not to mention those filing lawsuits re "reverse" discrimination consumed by "guilt"? Where are these cringing white hordes, doubled over in "guilt"?
Steele fails to even minimally address data on actual white thinking and behavior, serving up instead personal incidents such as his spiel about "white guilt" at the "TED" conference, or how he experienced segregated swimming pools when he was growing up, or how the white teammates on his swim team excluded him from their summer swim and picnic gatherings with the connivance of the white coach. These 1950s/1960s personal anecdotes are all well and good, even touching, but for a real exploration of the topic one needs to pull in credible data and reference and what other in-depth writers have written. Steels fails to do either. When reality on the ground is looked at much of Steele's spiel is laughable. White behavior does not show much "guilt" at all in the current day.
Interestingly enough, most of the white people that excluded Steele from their social gatherings seemed to have very little "guilt" about that at all. He relates how one white teammate raved exuberantly about his summer outings (the one where the "colored" Steele was excluded). Steele claims that he sensed guilt by his teammate and that the exuberance was cover for "racial innocence."
QUOTE:
"All these white people—the coach, my teammates, and their families—would have comprised a little community of coconspirators that, all together, invented the rationalizations necessary to exclude the only black swimmer on the team. White lies, as it were, would have been told all around. When my teammate approached me in the registration line so anxious to tell me about his summer, I could see—even as a teenager—that his very exuberance was the repression of some inner doubt or guilt. It was one of those self-serving circumlocutions that racism thrives on. Because he believed himself to be innocent of racism, he (and the other coconspirators) reasoned that he could never have had so much fun if he had known himself to be complicit with racism. Therefore, if he had great fun, it was proof that he had not conspired to exclude his black teammate. He wanted me to witness his excitement as proof of his innocence."
But it is just as easy for a reader to interpret the story another way- that his white pal actually felt little real "guilt", maybe some momentary discomfort at leaving him behind, but nothing in depth, and certainly nothing to get worked up about. The white boy was exuberant not as any sort of cover, but because he felt little of the pain Steele felt, and had little sensitivity towards Steele's feelings. The negro teammate was excluded and it was fine after all- we still had fun. No need for any cover- the summer went just fine, as if the negro did not exist at all. This is an aspect of the case Steele seems not to have grasped or else he avoids honestly addressing it. If his white buddy was truly "guilty" he would have rather played down his "negro-free" summer fun out of respect for Steele's feelings. But he didn't. Having great fun is not a cover for guilt- it is a manifestation of white indifference. Various reviewers have hailed Steele's racial psychological insight, but his insight seems to a bit shallow here, and ultimately undermines his argument re "shame" or guilt. If anything the incident shows that most (not all) white people, absent some sort of outside confrontation or pressure, feel very little real or substantial "guilt" for the negatives they inflict on black people. Steele's white friend anecdote, ironically, might be a nice illustration of the case.
5) STEELE URGES CONSERVATIVE SOLUTIONS TO
"POLARIZATION" BUT HAS SUSPICI OUSLY
LITTLE TO SAY ABOUT "POLARIZING" CONSERVATIVE RACISM, WHICH IS ALIVE AND WELL.
Steele's attempts to psychoanalyze Americans on race show
some insight, but again, he is overly heavy on personal opinion and anecdote.
What have others who have studied race relations in depth written we want to
know and how do you respond to that? Steele has little to say, giving the book
a thin feel. There has been a huge amount on the topic- why don't you address
at least a portion of it? Steele cops out. Indeed he says he is not going to
give any solutions because "we all know what the solutions are" such
as being nice, good manners etc.. Really? So smiling at lot at black people, saying hello etc (or
vice versa for whites) will help erase "white guilt" or "shame"? Who woulda
thunk?
Strangely enough, of those "solutions we all know"
Steele does not mention stopping the continual distortion of black history and
achievements by white right wingers (like Ann Coulter and others for example) nor does he
give much attention to the rise of a significant white "heriditarian"
movement- linked with Charles Murray of Bell Curve fame and many such others- that
is dedicated to disparaging black intelligence, history and accomplishments,
while presenting whites as virtuous paragons of "merit", family
stability, and peacefulness.
This white "heriditarian" movement for example,
has found a welcome home on the Internet where its propaganda organs churn out
distortion around the clock. It is much more sophisticated that the snarling Ku
Kluxers of old, churning out distorted claims, sleight of hand analyses,
even bogus data to lend its racialist agenda a scientific veneer. And this is not simply Internet trolls. A well-funded network of right wing think tanks, books and conferences, led by established, degreed academics such as Linda Gottfredson, Richard Lynn or Tatu VanHaven, with ties to prestigious conservative publications such as National Review, and deep-pocketed bankrollers such as the Pioneer Fund are well embedded in the mix. And they do a broad mix of distortion and misrepresentation on black people. Somehow Shelby Steele's "solution" misses such things. Backward
black evolution is a favorite meme. High number of black abortions? Well what
can we expect from people that are backward even from "evolution"? Of
course the propagandists don't mention that the highest rate of abortion in the
world are by alleged white "role models"- Russia kills 2 white babies
for each live birth.
Heavy black street
violence? Well of course- and what can be expected from these backward humans
with their oversupply of testosterone and so on? Why there may even be a
"violence gene" with "these people." Of course few in the
heriditarian propaganda chambers mention white groups with similar high rates
of violence,- like the white Irish, or the greatest expression of systematic
murder of all time- the Holocaust. You see they can't possible be "a white
thing." But when blacks are involved, yes of course black
"evolution" or black "culture" is to blame. White people
are always nice and virtuous. Heaven
forbid anyone apply the same reasoning in reverse and attribute such negatives
to whiteness. Much of the above is sugarcoated or veiled with the right codewords, and has found wide play on the popular Internet.
Typical of his lightweight, dishonest approach, Steele
avoids such issues, even though they are significant, and they do have a direct
bearing on the matter of alleged white "shame" including the continued denialist posture some white conservatives take.
6) STEELE'S ANECDOTES SEEM CONTRADICTORY AT TIMES AND
STRAIN CREDIBILITY, AS IN HIS CLARENCE THOMAS EXAMPLE
For example he claims
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is a "victim" of
"liberalism" - from "dissociation"- liberalism's guiding
light. But the example he gives is unconvincing and weak. According to Steele, Clarence
Thomas virtually pitched his Yale Law degree away into an obscure corner where
it now gathers dust, devalued because of connections with "affirmative
action." Perhaps, but Thomas himself benefited from AA to get into Yale.
To maintain consistency he now has to disparage his own Yale degree, for which
we are told by Steele he worked so hard? Steele's use of the example seems all
too convenient- and ties into the white right-wing narrative about supposedly
"psychologically crippled" black folk due to "quotas." It's all a bit too pat.
But there is another explanation that Steele misses
entirely- one he would know and mention, if he honestly addressed the topic. Thomas' Yale
experience was devalued not merely because of his initial AA entry or "quotas", but because
white networks of privilege had little use for a small town black man with no
connections. How often such white networks give their own a leg up on the mere
basis of "potential" while a black man has to work twice as hard to
get a minimal foothold. This is the narrative that runs through hundreds of
reminiscences of successful blacks. It
is strangely missing from Steele's discussion.
It is true that Thomas was disappointed because big money
offers did not come his way. But in fact he applied to mostly white law firms
in the south (not exactly a region of progressivism, or higher salaries), and he did in fact refuse some
job offers as beneath him, when told he would be put on pro bono work. He was
crushed that white classmates were getting better offers. But was this due to
the "taint" of "affirmative action" or to the old truth
most qualified black job seekers know- if you are white- white networks will
reach out to and help you to much more lucrative opportunities than if you are
black. That is the blunt reality. Steele curiously avoids discussing this in any detail, even though it is a central reality for many black people. Yes, it is true that Thomas found out that a mere
Yale degree for a small town black man like him was worth less because he did
not have the larger web of connections and white networks white graduates have.
There were preferential white legacy admission to Yale no doubt who strolled
out with a mediocre "gentleman's C" and got coddled by the white
networks, and perhaps made out better than a more dedicated guy like Clarence Thomas. Sure. But that's white privilege, which Steele continually minimizes, downplays or avoids discussing. The fact that Steele keeps minimizing or avoiding discussion
of the white privilege that hurt, or seemingly devalued
his hero Clarence Thomas, shows that Steele is not being honest with the
reader.
But white privilege also operates also on another level- it can devalue, but it can also build up, provided you are useful to the whites wielding it. Powerful white supporters or boosters, often Yale graduates, helped Clarence Thomas greatly. In fact Thomas DID benefit from his supposedly
"useless" Yale credential to obtain a series of high profile slots,
beginning with an appointment by a white Republican who was attorney general of Missouri AND a
Yale graduate. The "old school connection" DID benefit Clarence
Thomas after all. And in future years, the same supposedly "useless"
Yale degree was touted by the Republicans that appointed him to those slots. He
would not have gone so far without that Yale degree.
Thomas was also hired on to the legal staff of chemical giantMonsanto , in part
Thomas was also hired on to the legal staff of chemical giant
7. STEELE'S NOTION OF "GUILT" IS SHALLOW AND DISTORTED FOR HE DOES NOT ADDRESS WHITE PRIVILEGE
It is unknown how one can talk about white "guilt" and not address white privilege. The two are linked- whether as a cause, or an element of angry denial when for example whites living in formerly "whites only" suburbs, fulsomely subsidized by the federal government, and reaping all the advantages thereform, including access to better jobs and schools, angrily deny that they are the beneficiaries of massive preferential treatment in such things. Steele, like many white conservatives, seems to think that pointing out the matter of such privilege is promotion of "guilt." But such privilege is a fact on the ground. As seen with his own example of Clarence Thomas, whites who have their network of connections, built up over 2 centuries have it a lot better than a guy like Thomas. Again, was it because AA "devalued" his degree that Thomas did not get lucrative "big money" offers from white law firms, or was it because he was a no-name small town black guy with an otherwise unremarkable college record? If he was white and had access to white networks Thomas would have made out a lot better.
The failure of Steele to address such crucial matters just shows how shallow his argument is. Again, if you are writing about guilt you have to address one of its key components- actual or perceived privilege, that should make you feel "guilty." You don't have to write an academic tome but you should be willing to candidly and honestly address such issues. But Steele again and again cops out. Just as one example of privilege, when actual data is referenced, sober, credible studies of employment like Deidre Royser's 2003 "Race and the Invisible hand: How White Networks Exclude Black Men from Blue-Collar Jobs," show that again and again, blacks have to rely on things like advertised job openings, advertised formal training programs etc etc, while whites are quickly and easily "hooked up" for jobs and other benefits by their informal white networks, including "good old boy" (or girl) white networks.
Steele avoids talking about such things in any depth, subsuming it all under "guilt" - a tactic numerous white right wingers use to stifle discussion- the equivalent "conservative correctness" to the "political correctness" they so oft decry. Talk about "white guilt" (which is low or in many venues, non-existent) serves as a diversionary propaganda measure to avoid real debate on substantive issues, and to continue the massive distortion of US history where race is concerned. Steele's lightweight book, in the final analysis, helps along such tactics.
8. STEELE'S NOTION THAT "LIBERALS" DISSOCIATE WHITE PEOPLE FROM GOOD THINGS IS LAUGHABLE
Steele also claims that "liberals" supposedly "disassociate" whites from such nice things as virtue, exceptionally, etc and connect them with hypocrisy and evil. This is sheer nonsense as far as a general statement, and flatly contradicted specifically by opening any credible book on US history. It may be true that some liberal/leftists on some college campus condemn all white people as evil but such are trivial. Much more telling is the fact that whites HAVE done some very bad things to blacks throughout US history and on some measures continue to do so. This is fact, not "dissociation." But contrary to the "dissociation" argument, liberals DO generally associate whites with goodness, and pat themselves on the back for progressive reforms that DO "associate" white people with enlightenment, goodness, virtue, democracy, freedom etc. In fact this was one of the things that made progress so slow on civil rights- the unwillingness of white liberals to acknowledge the vicious nature of segregation and discrimination and the serious effect it had on black people. To such liberals the goodness of white people would bring a withering away of such unpleasantness in time, and there was no need for blacks to do marches, demonstrations, lawsuits etc, an argument explicitly stated during that era- as credible histories like Taylor Branch's Pulitzer Prize winning series (Parting the Waters, Pillar of Fire, At Canaan's Edge) show in detail. Just the foot-dragging of the Kennedys illustrates the case. Exactly when this benevolent withering away of discrimination against blacks would take place was never pinned down- it was all a fuzzy future matter, best left to the future, and a calm present, if only pesky negroes would keep quiet and stop asking white people when they were going to fulfill their own constitution. As it turned out, it took severe pressure, including international embarrassment forced action on complacent white liberals- and in the aftermath, many were not shy about trying to take credit for long overdue reforms in the name of white goodness.
Furthermore it does not take "liberals" to show plenty of credible "association" of whites with hypocrisy and evil. Dry history makes the case, as do conservative bible thumpers opposed to slavery back in the 1800s, among others. And Steele's Clarence Thomas example illustrates white hypocrisy in part, just as that same hypocrisy denies or minimizes the painful burdens and barriers imposed on blacks, blames them for their entire plight, and continues to generate a massive propaganda narrative of distortion about black history and achievements- such as the myth that "affirmative action" is responsible for black economic advances. See Ann Coulter's "Mugged" for an example of this cynical white, right wing distortion. Steele's "disassociation" argument is laughable on many counts.
SUMMARY
To sum up, while Steele makes some fair criticisms of
liberalism, they are nothing new and are basically a retread of the same anti
"politically correct" positions other conservatives have made for
years. This gives the book a stale feel- it really does seem like a rehash of
stuff he has written before or that one has heard for the last 2 decades. I
mean we know America is no longer the legal apartheid state that it was as
recently as the 1960s, and things have changed immensely for the better from
those days on many counts, but circa 2015, is it really a "fresh"
blinding insight that school integration has not matched the "ideal"
black-white body counts advocated by SOME liberal proponents? Whoa.. like this
is news? An did people in the 1960s really expect some sort of racial nirvana with the passage of civil rights laws? ML King certainly did not, nor did Malcolm X, nor most black citizens, nor most white ones with any decent knowledge about America's race struggles.
A number of reviewers have touted the book as offering a
so-called "fresh" approach but it seems stale and recycled, not "fresh." A second major
weakness is Steele disingenuousness. He has plenty to say to bash "the
liberals" about "polarizing" America, yet carefully skips over
cynical and dishonest "conservative correctness" and its own
divisiveness and "polarization" tactics. This makes the book much less
useful than it would have been as a way to get some clear analysis and answers
on the American dilemma.
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http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2015/09/guilt2-media-collaborates-with-guilt.html
How Obama plays on white guilt
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2015/08/how-obama-plays-upon-white-guilt-hilary.html
Blacks oppose free speech- more ramshackle "research" from "the East"..
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2015/08/blacks-oppose-free-speech-ramshackle.html
Hands off the Confederate flag
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2015/06/hands-off-confederate-flag.html
Despite much more wealth than blacks, whites collect about the same rate of welfare and are treated more generously
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2015/06/despite-much-more-wealth-than-blacks.html
African "boat people" ushering in European demographic decline
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2015/05/african-boat-people-ushering-in.html
The forgotten Holocaust- King Leopold's "Congo Free State" - 10 million victims
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-forgotten-holocaust-10-million-in.html
Are violent minorities taking over California and the West?
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2015/04/are-violent-minorities-taking-over.html
Presidential hopeful Ben Carson meets and Greeks
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2015/03/presidential-hopeful-ben-carson-meet.html
Contra "ISIS" partisans, there have been some beneficial effects of Christianity
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2015/03/contra-isis-partisans-there-are-some.html
The social construction of race, compared to biology- Graves
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2015/02/the-social-construction-of-race_8.html
Why HBD or hereditarianism lacks credibility
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2014/10/why-hbd-or-hereditarianism-lacks.html
Leading Scientists criticize hereditarian claims
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2014/08/leading-scientists-criticize.html
Thai me down - Thais fall behind genetically related southern Chinese, Tibetans below genetically related East Asians like Koreans and other Chinese
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2014/08/thai-me-up-thai-me-down.html
Time for liberals to respect "the south" ... in a way of speaking.. the south of Egypt that is..
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2014/08/time-for-liberals-to-respect-south-in.html
Irony 2: touted High IQ "G-men" cannot reproduce themselves
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2014/07/irony-2-higher-iqs-correlated-with_25.html
Unz and Sowell: Unz debunking Lynn's IQ and Wealth of Nations. Sowell debunking the Bell Curve
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2014/07/unz-and-sowell-unz-debunking-lynns-iq.html
Irony 1: touted High IQ types are more homosexual, more atheist, and more liberal (HAL)
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2014/06/irony-high-iqs-produce-more-atheists.html
Elite white universities discriminate against Asians using reverse "affirmative action"
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2014/06/elite-white-universities-discriminate.html
Deteriorating state of white America
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2014/05/deteriorating-state-of-white-america.html
Racial Cartels (The Affirmative Action Propaganda machine- part 2
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2014/05/the-affirmative-action-propaganda.html
Hereditarian's/HBD's "Great Black Hope"
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2014/04/blog-post.html
Exploding nonsense: the 10,000 Year Explosion
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2014/03/exploding-nonsense-review-of-cochran_8.html
We need "rational racism"- Convicted felon Dinesh Dsouza becomes his own test case
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2014/01/we-need-rational-racism-proponent.html
The Affirmative Action Propaganda Machine- part 1
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-affirmatve-action-propaganda.html
Two rules for being "really" black- no white wimmen, no Republican
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2014/01/to-be-really-black-you-cant-have-white.html
The Axial age reconsidered
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-axial-age-reconsidered.html
Cannibal seasonings: dark meat on white
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2013/12/i.html
"Affirmative Action" in the form of court remedies has been around a long time- since the 1930s- benefiting white union workers against discrimination by employers
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2013/09/affirmative-action-as-term-appears-in.html
Mugged by reality 1: White quotas, special preferences and government jobs
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2013/06/mugged-by-reality-1-white-quotas.html
Lightweight enforcement of EEO laws contradicts claims of "flood" of minorities "taking jobs"
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2013/06/blog-post.html
Railroaded 3: white violence and intimidation imposed quotas
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2013/06/railroaded-3-white-violence-and.html
Railroaded 2: how white quotas and special preferences blockade black progress...
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2013/06/railroaded-2-thow-white-quotas-and.html
Railroaded 1: How white affirmative action and white special preferences destroyed black railroad employment...
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2013/06/railroaded-how-white-affirmative-action.html
Affirmative action: primary beneficiaries are white women
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2011/04/affirmative-action-primary.html
7 reasons certain libertarians and right-wingers are wrong about the Civil Right Act
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2012/05/7-reasons-libertarians-may-be-wrong.html
Assorted "Role models" debunked- hypocritical heriditarianism
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2009/11/hbd-debunked-debunking-hypocritical.htmll
Social philosophy of Thomas Sowell
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2011/07/social-philosophy-of-thomas-sowell.html
Additional gene flow data... :)
Go with the flow 2- African gene flow into Europe in various eras
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2015/11/go-with-flow-2-african-gene-flow-into.html
DNA studies show African movement to Europe from very ancient times
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2015/09/dna-studies-show-african-movement-to.html
Guilt3- Why the "white privilege industry" is not all there
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2015/09/guilt3-why-white-privilege-industry-is.html
Guilt2- Media collaborates with guilt mongers - or how to play the white victim card
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2015/09/guilt2-media-collaborates-with-guilt.html
How Obama plays on white guilt
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2015/08/how-obama-plays-upon-white-guilt-hilary.html
Blacks oppose free speech- more ramshackle "research" from "the East"..
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2015/08/blacks-oppose-free-speech-ramshackle.html
Hands off the Confederate flag
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2015/06/hands-off-confederate-flag.html
Despite much more wealth than blacks, whites collect about the same rate of welfare and are treated more generously
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2015/06/despite-much-more-wealth-than-blacks.html
African "boat people" ushering in European demographic decline
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2015/05/african-boat-people-ushering-in.html
The forgotten Holocaust- King Leopold's "Congo Free State" - 10 million victims
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-forgotten-holocaust-10-million-in.html
Are violent minorities taking over California and the West?
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2015/04/are-violent-minorities-taking-over.html
Presidential hopeful Ben Carson meets and Greeks
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2015/03/presidential-hopeful-ben-carson-meet.html
Contra "ISIS" partisans, there have been some beneficial effects of Christianity
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2015/03/contra-isis-partisans-there-are-some.html
The social construction of race, compared to biology- Graves
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2015/02/the-social-construction-of-race_8.html
Why HBD or hereditarianism lacks credibility
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2014/10/why-hbd-or-hereditarianism-lacks.html
Leading Scientists criticize hereditarian claims
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2014/08/leading-scientists-criticize.html
Thai me down - Thais fall behind genetically related southern Chinese, Tibetans below genetically related East Asians like Koreans and other Chinese
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2014/08/thai-me-up-thai-me-down.html
Time for liberals to respect "the south" ... in a way of speaking.. the south of Egypt that is..
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2014/08/time-for-liberals-to-respect-south-in.html
Irony 2: touted High IQ "G-men" cannot reproduce themselves
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2014/07/irony-2-higher-iqs-correlated-with_25.html
Unz and Sowell: Unz debunking Lynn's IQ and Wealth of Nations. Sowell debunking the Bell Curve
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2014/07/unz-and-sowell-unz-debunking-lynns-iq.html
Irony 1: touted High IQ types are more homosexual, more atheist, and more liberal (HAL)
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2014/06/irony-high-iqs-produce-more-atheists.html
Elite white universities discriminate against Asians using reverse "affirmative action"
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2014/06/elite-white-universities-discriminate.html
Deteriorating state of white America
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2014/05/deteriorating-state-of-white-america.html
Racial Cartels (The Affirmative Action Propaganda machine- part 2
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2014/05/the-affirmative-action-propaganda.html
Hereditarian's/HBD's "Great Black Hope"
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2014/04/blog-post.html
Exploding nonsense: the 10,000 Year Explosion
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2014/03/exploding-nonsense-review-of-cochran_8.html
We need "rational racism"- Convicted felon Dinesh Dsouza becomes his own test case
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2014/01/we-need-rational-racism-proponent.html
The Affirmative Action Propaganda Machine- part 1
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-affirmatve-action-propaganda.html
Two rules for being "really" black- no white wimmen, no Republican
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2014/01/to-be-really-black-you-cant-have-white.html
The Axial age reconsidered
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-axial-age-reconsidered.html
Cannibal seasonings: dark meat on white
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2013/12/i.html
"Affirmative Action" in the form of court remedies has been around a long time- since the 1930s- benefiting white union workers against discrimination by employers
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2013/09/affirmative-action-as-term-appears-in.html
Mugged by reality 1: White quotas, special preferences and government jobs
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2013/06/mugged-by-reality-1-white-quotas.html
Lightweight enforcement of EEO laws contradicts claims of "flood" of minorities "taking jobs"
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2013/06/blog-post.html
Railroaded 3: white violence and intimidation imposed quotas
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2013/06/railroaded-3-white-violence-and.html
Railroaded 2: how white quotas and special preferences blockade black progress...
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2013/06/railroaded-2-thow-white-quotas-and.html
Railroaded 1: How white affirmative action and white special preferences destroyed black railroad employment...
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2013/06/railroaded-how-white-affirmative-action.html
Affirmative action: primary beneficiaries are white women
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2011/04/affirmative-action-primary.html
7 reasons certain libertarians and right-wingers are wrong about the Civil Right Act
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2012/05/7-reasons-libertarians-may-be-wrong.html
Assorted "Role models" debunked- hypocritical heriditarianism
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2009/11/hbd-debunked-debunking-hypocritical.htmll
Social philosophy of Thomas Sowell
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2011/07/social-philosophy-of-thomas-sowell.html
Additional gene flow data... :)
Bogus "biodiversity" theories of Kanazawa, Ruston, Lynn debunked
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2010/09/blog-post.html
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2010/09/blog-post.html
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2010/04/blog-post_1818.html
In the Blood- debunking "HBD" and Neo-Nazi appropriation of ancient Egypt
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2009/11/blog-post_29.html
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2009/11/blog-post_29.html
early
Europeans and middle Easterners looked like Africans. Peoples returning
or "backflowing" to Africa would already be looking like Africans
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2010/05/blog-post_1754.html
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2010/05/blog-post_1754.html
Ancient Egypt: one of the world's most advanced civilizations- created by tropical peoples
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2010/09/blog-post_06.html
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2010/09/blog-post_06.html
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2013/03/playing-greek-defence-review-of-thornton.html
Quotations from mainstream academic research on the Nile Valley peoples
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2010/04/blog-post_9251.html
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2010/04/blog-post_9251.html
http://egyptsearchreloaded.proboards.com/thread/15/basic-database-nile-valley-studies
OTHER LINKS
Race, IQ, and Wealth: What the facts tell us about a taboo subject By Ron Unz
HBD EVOLUTION, BRAIN SIZE AND NATIONAL IQ CLAIMS DEBUNKED
IQ claims and miscellaneous data
Race, IQ, and Wealth: What the facts tell us about a taboo subject By Ron Unz
HBD EVOLUTION, BRAIN SIZE AND NATIONAL IQ CLAIMS DEBUNKED
Evolution, brain size, and the national IQ of peoples ... -
Jelte Wicherts 2010
http://wicherts.socsci.uva.nl/wichertsPAIDrejoinder.pdf
------------------------------------
Why national IQs do not support evolutionary theories of
intelligence - WIcherts, Borsboom and Dolan 2010
Personality and Individual Differences 48 (2010) 91-96
http://wicherts.socsci.uva.nl/wicherts2010.pdf
----------------------------- -------------
Are intelligence tests measurement invariant over time? by
JM Wicherts - ?2004
--Dolan, Wicherts et
al 2004. Investigating the nature of the Flynn effect. Intelligence 32 (2004)
509-537
http://www.iapsych.com/iqmr/fe/LinkedDocuments/wicherts2004.pdf
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LYNN AND VANHAVEN'S IQ AND THE WEALTH OF NATIONS DEBUNKED
---------------- -------
www.anth.uconn.edu/faculty/mcbrearty/Pdf/McB%20&%20Brooks%202000%20TRTW.pdf
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Race and other misadventures: essays in honor of Ashley
Montagu... By Larry T. Reynolds, Leonard Lieberman
http://books.google.com/books?id=5DLrgG_MflgC&pg=PA190&dq=r-+k-+selection+races&cd=1#v=onepage&q=r-%20k-%20selection%20races&f=false
--------------------------------
Race and intelligence: separating science from myth. By Jefferson
M. Fish. Routledge 2002. See Templeton's detailed article referenced above also
inside the book
http://books.google.com/books?id=t9OdPPLIgMAC&pg=PA64&dq=r-+k-+selection+races&cd=7#v=onepage&q=r-%20k-%20selection%20races&f=false
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http://www.ogiek.org/indepth/what-they-mean.htm
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Oubre, A (2011) Race Genes and Ability: Rethinking Ethnic
Differences, vol 1 and 2. BTI Press
For summary see: http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/05-02-18/
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http://www.dartmouth.edu/~chance/course/topics/curveball.html
-----------------------------------------------------------
--S OY Keita, R A Kittles, et al. "Conceptualizing human
variation," Nature Genetics 36, S17 - S20 (2004)
http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v36/n11s/pdf/ng1455.pdf
--S.O.Y. Keita and Rick Kittles. (1997) *The Persistence ofRacial Thinking and the Myth of Racial Divergence. AJPA, 99:3
http://www.councilforresponsiblegenetics.org/pageDocuments/WAURRSZQOE.pdf
---------------- -------
HBD RACE EVOLUTION CLAIMS DEBUNKED BY GENETICISTS
Alan Templeton. "The Genetic and Evolutionary
significnce oF Human Races." pp 31-56. IN: J. FiSh (2002) Race and
Intelligence: Separating scinnce from myth.
IQ claims and miscellaneous data
HBD RACE AND INTELLIGENCE CLAIMS DEBUNKED
J. FiSh (2002) Race
and Intelligence: Separating science from myth.
------------------------------------------
MORE HBD DEBUNKING
-------------------------------- ---------------------
Oubre, A (2011) Race Genes and Ability: Rethinking Ethnic
Differences, vol 1 and 2. BTI Press
----------------------------------------------
Krimsky, S, Sloan.K (2011) Race and the Genetic Revolution:
Science, Myth, and Culture
-------------------------------
Wicherts and Johnson, 2009. Group differences in the
heritability of items and test scores
http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/early/2009/04/24/rspb.2009.0238.full
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2013/06/coming-apart-can-murrays-down-with.html
"SELECTION FOR"- "SELECT FOR" HDB
CLAIMS DEBUNKED- "SELECTION" IS NOT THE ONLY KEY FORCE DRIVING CHANGE
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2012/12/demic-diffusion-notes-and-tropical.html
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2012/05/7-reasons-libertarians-may-be-wrong.html
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2012/08/cro-magnons-are-us-debunking-claims.html
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2014/03/exploding-nonsense-review-of-cochran_8.html
--Joseph Graves, 2006. What We Know and What We Don’t Know:
Human Genetic Variation and the Social Construction of Race
http://raceandgenomics.ssrc.org/Graves/
J. Kahn (2013) How a Drug Becomes "Ethnic" - Yale
Journal of Health Policy, Law and Ethics, v4:1
http://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1072&context=yjhple
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http://evolution.binghamton.edu/evos/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/PageProofs-Graves_race.pdf
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other links
Evolution, brain size, and the national IQ of peoples ... -
Jelte Wicherts 2010
http://wicherts.socsci.uva.nl/wichertsPAIDrejoinder.pdf
------------------------------------
Why national IQs do not support evolutionary theories of
intelligence - WIcherts, Borsboom and Dolan 2010
Personality and Individual Differences 48 (2010) 91-96
http://wicherts.socsci.uva.nl/wicherts2010.pdf
----------------------------- -------------
Are intelligence tests measurement invariant over time? by
JM Wicherts - ?2004
--Dolan, Wicherts et
al 2004. Investigating the nature of the Flynn effect. Intelligence 32 (2004)
509-537
http://www.iapsych.com/iqmr/fe/LinkedDocuments/wicherts2004.pdf
-------------------------------------------
LYNN AND VANHAVEN'S IQ AND THE WEALTH OF NATIONS DEBUNKED
---------------- -------
www.anth.uconn.edu/faculty/mcbrearty/Pdf/McB%20&%20Brooks%202000%20TRTW.pdf
------------------------
Race and other misadventures: essays in honor of Ashley
Montagu... By Larry T. Reynolds, Leonard Lieberman
http://books.google.com/books?id=5DLrgG_MflgC&pg=PA190&dq=r-+k-+selection+races&cd=1#v=onepage&q=r-%20k-%20selection%20races&f=false
--------------------------------
Race and intelligence: separating science from myth. By Jefferson
M. Fish. Routledge 2002. See Templeton's detailed article referenced above also
inside the book
http://books.google.com/books?id=t9OdPPLIgMAC&pg=PA64&dq=r-+k-+selection+races&cd=7#v=onepage&q=r-%20k-%20selection%20races&f=false
------------------------
http://www.ogiek.org/indepth/what-they-mean.htm
---------------- -------
Oubre, A (2011) Race Genes and Ability: Rethinking Ethnic
Differences, vol 1 and 2. BTI Press
For summary see: http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/05-02-18/
---------------- -------
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~chance/course/topics/curveball.html
-----------------------------------------------------------
--S OY Keita, R A Kittles, et al. "Conceptualizing human
variation," Nature Genetics 36, S17 - S20 (2004)
http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v36/n11s/pdf/ng1455.pdf
--S.O.Y. Keita and Rick Kittles. (1997) *The Persistence ofRacial Thinking and the Myth of Racial Divergence. AJPA, 99:3
http://www.councilforresponsiblegenetics.org/pageDocuments/WAURRSZQOE.pdf
---------------- -------
HBD RACE EVOLUTION CLAIMS DEBUNKED BY GENETICISTS
Alan Templeton. "The Genetic and Evolutionary
significnce oF Human Races." pp 31-56. IN: J. FiSh (2002) Race and
Intelligence: Separating scinnce from myth.
HBD RACE AND INTELLIGENCE CLAIMS DEBUNKED
J. FiSh (2002) Race
and Intelligence: Separating science from myth.
------------------------------------------
MORE HBD DEBUNKING
-------------------------------- ---------------------
Oubre, A (2011) Race Genes and Ability: Rethinking Ethnic
Differences, vol 1 and 2. BTI Press
----------------------------------------------
Krimsky, S, Sloan.K (2011) Race and the Genetic Revolution:
Science, Myth, and Culture
-------------------------------
Wicherts and Johnson, 2009. Group differences in the
heritability of items and test scores
http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/early/2009/04/24/rspb.2009.0238.full
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2013/06/coming-apart-can-murrays-down-with.html
"SELECTION FOR"- "SELECT FOR" HDB
CLAIMS DEBUNKED- "SELECTION" IS NOT THE ONLY KEY FORCE DRIVING CHANGE
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2012/12/demic-diffusion-notes-and-tropical.html
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2012/05/7-reasons-libertarians-may-be-wrong.html
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2012/08/cro-magnons-are-us-debunking-claims.html
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2014/03/exploding-nonsense-review-of-cochran_8.html
--Joseph Graves, 2006. What We Know and What We Don’t Know:
Human Genetic Variation and the Social Construction of Race
http://raceandgenomics.ssrc.org/Graves/
J. Kahn (2013) How a Drug Becomes "Ethnic" - Yale
Journal of Health Policy, Law and Ethics, v4:1
http://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1072&context=yjhple
------------------------------------ -----------------
http://evolution.binghamton.edu/evos/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/PageProofs-Graves_race.pdf
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