The Bell Curve Debate is a response to The Bell Curve

The Bell Curve

The Bell Curve is a best-selling and controversial 1994 book by the Harvard psychologist Richard J. Herrnstein and political scientist Charles Murray...

, by Richard J. Herrnstein

Richard Herrnstein

Richard J. Herrnstein was an American researcher in animal learning in the Skinnerian tradition. He was one of the founders of quantitative analysis of behavior....

 and Charles Murray

Charles Murray (author)

Charles Alan Murray is an American libertarian political scientist, author, columnist, and pundit working as a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank in Washington, DC...

. It includes 81 articles by 81 authors including K. Anthony Appiah, Gregg Easterbrook

Gregg Easterbrook

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, Howard Gardner

Howard Gardner

Howard Earl Gardner is an American developmental psychologist who is a professor of Cognition and Education at Harvard Graduate School of Education at Harvard University, Senior Director of Harvard Project Zero and author of over twenty books translated into thirty languages. Since 1995, he has...

, Eugene D. Genovese

Eugene D. Genovese

Eugene Dominic Genovese is an American historian of the American South and American slavery. He has been noted for bringing a Marxist perspective to the study of power, class and relations between planters and slaves in the South. His work Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made won the...

, Nathan Glazer

Nathan Glazer

Nathan Glazer is an American sociologist who taught at the University of California, Berkeley and for several decades at Harvard University...

, Stephen Jay Gould

Stephen Jay Gould

Stephen Jay Gould was an American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science. He was also one of the most influential and widely read writers of popular science of his generation....

, Bob Herbert

Bob Herbert

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, Christopher Hitchens

Christopher Hitchens

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, Irving Louis Horowitz

Irving Louis Horowitz

Irving Louis Horowitz is an American sociologist, author and college professor who has written and lectured extensively in his field.-Personal Life:Horowitz was born in New York City on September 25, 1929, to Louis and Esther Tepper Horowitz...

, Arthur Jensen

Arthur Jensen

Arthur Robert Jensen is a Professor Emeritus of educational psychology at the University of California, Berkeley. Jensen is known for his work in psychometrics and differential psychology, which is concerned with how and why individuals differ behaviorally from one another.He is a major proponent...

, Leon J. Kamin, Charles Lane

Charles Lane

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, Glenn C. Loury, Nell Irvin Painter

Nell Irvin Painter

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, Hugh Pearson, Adolph Reed Jr., Carl Rowan

Carl Rowan

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, Alan Ryan

Alan Ryan

Alan James Ryan, FBA was Warden of New College, Oxford, and Professor of Politics at the University of Oxford and currently a lecturer at Princeton University....

, Brent Staples

Brent Staples

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, Ellen Willis

Ellen Willis

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, and Christopher Winship

Christopher Winship

Christopher Winship is Diker-Tishman Professor of sociology at Harvard University, and principal of the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard. He is best known for his contributions to quantitative methods in sociology and, since 1995, has served as editor of Sociological Methods...

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The Bell Curve Debate: History, Documents, Opinions is edited by University of California, Los Angeles

University of California, Los Angeles

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 historian

Historian

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 Russell Jacoby

Russell Jacoby

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 and writer Naomi Glauberman. The publisher, Times Books, describes The Bell Curve Debate as a compilation of "the best of recent reviews and essays, and salient documents drawn from the curious history of this heated debate" capturing "the fervor, anger, and scope of an almost unprecedented national argument over the very idea of democracy and the possibility of a tolerant, multiracial America. It is an essential companion and answer to The Bell Curve and provides scholarship and polemic

Polemic

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 from every point of view."

See also

• History of the race and intelligence controversy
  History of the race and intelligence controversy
  The history of the race and intelligence controversy concerns the historical development of a debate, primarily in the United States, concerning possible explanations of group differences in intelligence...
  
  
• Race and intelligence
  Race and intelligence
  The connection between race and intelligence has been a subject of debate in both popular science and academic research since the inception of intelligence testing in the early 20th century...