Why Race Matters: Race Differences and What They Mean

664 Pages·1997·3.8 MB·English

by  Michael Levin

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Levin, Michael E.
Why race matters : race di�erences and what they mean / Michael Levin
p. cm.—(Human evolution, behavior, and intelligence, ISSN 1063-2158)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-275-95789-6 (alk.paper)
1. Race. 2. Nature and nurture. 3. United States—Race relations. 4. Blacks—Intelligence levels. I.
Title. II Series.
GN269.L49 1997
305.8—dc20 96-36361
Initial copyright © 1997 by Michael Levin
Copyright renewed © 2005 by New Century Foundation, ISBN: 0-9656383-5-9
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 96-36361
Originally published in 1997 by Praeger Publishers
Printed in the United States of America
First New Century Books Edition
To Meg, Mark, and Eric
I’ll teach you di�erences
—King Lear I, iv.
Copyright Acknowledgments
The author and publisher gratefully acknowledge permission to use the
following:
Hacker, Andrew, Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal.
©
Copyright 1992, 1995 by Andrew Hacker. Excerpted with the permission of
Scribner, a Division of Simon & Schuster, and reprinted by permission of the
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author s agent, Robin Straus Agency, Inc.
Rosenfeld, Michael, A�rmative Action and Justice (1991). Excerpts reprinted by
permission of Yale University Press.
©
Gould, Stephen Jay, The Mismeasure of Man (1981). Copyright 1981 by
Stephen Jay Gould. Excerpts reprinted by permission of W. W. Norton &
Company, Inc.
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Levin, Michael, A Comment on the Minnesota Transracial Adoption Study, in
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Intelligence 19 (1994): 13 20. Reprinted by permission of Case Western Reserve
University.
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Levin, Michael, Race, Biology and Justice, in Public A�airs Quarterly 8
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(1994): 267 285. Excerpted by permission.
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Levin, Michael, Responses to Race Di�erences in Crime, Journal of Social
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Philosophy 23 (1992): 5 29. Excerpted by permission of Trinity University.
Contents
Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Foreword
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1. So What?
PART I. THE EMPIRICAL ARGUMENT
2. Preliminaries
3. Race Di�erences in Intelligence and Temperament
4. Genetic Factors
5. Determinism, Reductionism, Rei�cation, Racism
PART II. VALUES
6. Race and Values
7. A Vantage Point
PART III. IMPLICATIONS
8. Justice
9. Crime
10. Individualism and Discrimination
Afterword: A Hypothetical Address by the President of the United States of
America to a Joint Session of Congress and the American People
APPENDICES
Appendix A: Time Preferences
Appendix B: A Formal Treatment of Genetic Causation
Appendix C: A Logical Di�culty
References
Index
Illustrations
FIGURES
2.1 The Normal Distribution for Height
2.2 Reduction in Variance
2.3 Regression
2.4 Predicting Height from Calories
3.1 Bias
3.2 Selection Errors
4.1 Norm of Reaction for a Hypothetical Height Gene
Δ Δ
4.2 Explaining P by E
4.3 The Flynn E�ect with Constant IQ Di�erences
4.4 Cloaked Genotypic Di�erentiation
5.1 Genetic Determinism Almost Always False
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6.1 The Prisoner s Dilemma
6.2 Socialization as a Passive Gene/Environment Correlation
6.3 Crossed Signals
8.1 Change in Slopes
8.2 Relative Cuto�s
A.1 Exponential Discounting
A.2 I=2
A.3 I=10
TABLES
3.1 Black-White IQ Di�erences
3.2 A Manifold of Abilities
3.3 Loadings on Power
3.4 A Two-Factor Analysis
4.1 Estimates of the Heritability of Intelligence
4.2 Estimates of h2
4.3 Heritability of Personality
4.4 Cranial Capacities by Race
4.5 Performances of Cohorts on Measures of Ability and Attainment
4.6 Between-Cohort Performance Di�erences
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4.7 Zimbabwe English Performance on WISC-R and Raven s Progressive
Matrices
4.8 Black IQ in the North
8.1 B/W Ratios of Male Employees versus B/W Ratios Predicted by IQ
8.2 Race Di�erences When IQ Is Controlled For
8.3 Mean Race Di�erences in IQ in Various Occupations
9.1 Interracial and Intraracial Rape