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by Thomas Sowell


  Definitions, 1, 2

  Detroit, 93, 97, 123

  Developed Capabilities, 15, 137

  Discrimination, 14, 15, 18, 26, 47, 52, 56, 65, 97–98, 104–106, 116, 122, 124, 127, 133–135, 137

  Disease, 18, 24

  “Disparate Impact,” 128–129, 131–136

  Disparities, 7–20, 108, 112, 116, 122, 125

  Diversity, 104, 128

  Dogmatism, 51, 63, 87, 107, 108, 123

  Duration of IQ Test Results, 73–74

  Economics, 31, 32, 33, 35

  Education, 2, 10, 45, 52, 110, 111, 116, 122, 123, 126–127, 128, 131

  education in soft subjects: 46, 47, 48

  newly educated people: 45, 47–48

  Ely, Richard T., 31–32, 33, 34–35

  Environment

  cultural legacy: 108

  immediate surroundings: 79–80, 88, 108

  versus heredity: 81–82, 88

  Equality, 137–139

  Eugenics, 23, 26, 27, 32–33, 60–61, 73, 122

  Europe, 10–14, 15, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30–31, 36, 37, 41, 43, 46, 47, 49, 50, 86, 87, 96, 100, 101, 105, 118, 124–125, 127

  Eastern Europe: 13–14, 15, 26, 29, 30, 36, 37, 100, 101, 125

  Europeans: 8, 11, 13, 14, 19, 20, 21, 23, 25, 27, 36, 41, 77, 101, 119, 121

  Northern Europe: 19, 30, 31, 41

  Southern Europe: 24, 29, 30, 31, 37, 43

  Evidence, 82–83, 95, 104, 113, 115

  Ex ante versus Ex post, 52

  Exploitation, 51–52

  External Factors (see also Internal Factors), 15, 20, 58, 115, 116, 127

  Fair Labor Standards Act, 22–23, 59, 61, 63

  False Dichotomy, 124–125

  First World War, 24, 25, 49, 57, 68, 72, 73n, 77, 78, 85n, 86, 87

  Flynn, James R., 64, 74, 75, 77, 82, 85n

  France, 7, 37, 57, 59

  Frazier, E. Franklin, 3, 20

  “Free Persons of Color,” 42–43

  Freedom, 31–32, 38, 88, 136

  Galton, Francis, 22–23, 59, 61, 63

  Genes, 7, 14, 41, 43, 65, 68, 77, 82, 122

  Genetic Determinism, 15, 22–24, 33, 60, 71, 81, 84, 88, 94, 122, 124, 136

  Geography, 10–15, 16, 56, 122, 125

  Georgetown University, 67, 114

  German Jews, 20, 49, 100, 101

  Germans, 8, 14, 15, 18n, 30, 45–46, 49–50, 51, 101, 109

  Germany, 2, 15, 16, 36, 37, 50, 75, 82

  Grant, Madison, 21, 22, 24, 27–29, 35–36, 40–41, 43, 59, 61, 63, 72, 82, 87, 125, 136

  Greeks, 8, 14, 25, 41, 43, 72

  Habsburg Empire, 45, 49, 53

  Hacker, Andrew, 108, 109

  Handlin, Oscar, 13, 98

  Harlem, 20, 90, 91, 103, 112

  Harvard University, 32, 34, 40, 70, 84, 130

  Hebrides Islands, 9, 67, 68, 72

  Height, 57, 58, 59, 81

  Heredity versus Environment, 81–82, 88

  Herrnstein, Richard J., 81, 82–83, 84

  Hitler, Adolf, 2, 27, 136

  Holocaust, 2, 36, 87, 136

  Horses, 10–11

  Housing, 93

  housing projects: 90–91

  residential clustering: 19–20, 96–97, 98

  Hume, David, 44, 50

  Identity Movements, 45, 47, 49, 109, 133

  Immigrants, 24, 26, 29–31, 35, 36–37, 72, 98, 136

  Income, 4, 7, 9, 13, 32, 50, 51, 56, 58, 59, 66, 79, 88, 103, 124–125, 126, 130, 132–133, 135–136

  India, 6, 15, 47, 49, 72, 118, 129, 130

  Indonesia, 7, 66, 71n, 129

  Intellectuals

  definition: 2–3

  lack of accountability: 136–137

  peer consensus: 51, 77, 107

  verbal virtuosity: 3–4, 90, 109, 111, 115

  Intelligence (see also Mental Tests), 55–85, 87

  “ceiling” on intelligence: 59, 63–64, 70–71

  definition: 55

  education: 62–63

  environment: 57–60

  family size: 59–60, 62, 63

  heredity: 57–60

  incest: 60

  innate potential: 55–56, 58, 73, 75, 82

  magnitudes of differences: 56–57, 60–65

  native intelligence: 55

  Intergroup Relations, 18, 47, 48

  Intermarriage, 1–2

  Internal Factors, 15–16, 51, 58, 80–81, 116

  International Comparisons, 3, 89–90, 125

  Intertemporal Abstractions, 50, 104, 107, 113, 118, 121

  IQ (see also Mental Tests), 7, 9, 19, 25, 26, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62–63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68–69, 70, 71–72, 73–75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 82, 83, 85n, 137

  Irish, 10, 18–19, 25, 101

  Isolation, 12–13, 67–68

  Italians, 9, 10, 20, 25, 30, 72, 79–80

  Italy, 20, 25, 31, 37, 80

  Japan, 6, 16, 48

  Japanese, 8, 16, 48n, 52–53, 64, 65, 80, 94, 96

  Jensen, Arthur R., 61–63, 70, 74, 77, 79n

  Jews, 1–2, 8, 10, 14, 15, 19–20, 21, 24, 26, 28, 30, 36, 38, 40, 46, 49, 57–58, 70–71, 79–80, 85n, 87, 90, 100–101, 102, 128n, 139

  garment industry: 15–16

  mental tests: 26, 87

  Nobel prizes: 70–71

  Klineberg, Otto, 77, 87

  Ku Klux Klan, 27, 35, 39

  Labor Force Participation Rate, 95, 96, 120

  Languages, 12, 27, 44, 45, 49, 72, 119

  Latvia, 45, 109

  Law Schools, 66, 67, 131

  Lebanese, 8, 139

  Liberals, 26, 86–102, 104

  Life Chances, 131–132

  Lincoln, Abraham, 118

  Literacy, 13–14, 40, 49, 72, 120

  Los Angeles, 103, 104

  Lower Class Whites in England, 3, 76, 87, 91, 116, 123, 126–127

  Lower East Side, 19–20, 80

  Lynching, 89

  Malaysia, 7, 8, 9, 10, 49, 52–53, 94, 106, 129–130

  Maoris, 21, 88

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 34, 66–67

  Media, 2, 4, 91, 93, 114, 123, 136

  Mencken, H.L., 37–39

  Mental Tests, 24–25, 26, 35, 67, 71, 81, 87, 127

  abstract questions: 26, 67–69, 87

  army tests: 24–25, 26, 72–73, 78

  bar examinations: 67, 131

  biased tests: 68

  duration of mental test results: 73–74

  IQs: 7, 9–10, 19, 25, 26, 58, 59, 61, 62–63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68–69, 70, 71–72, 73–75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 82, 83, 85n, 137

  predictive validity: 64–67

  renorming IQ tests: 74

  SATs: 66, 70

  sex differences: 66, 71n, 78–79

  test score differences: 69–73

  Military, 10, 16, 24–25, 26, 72–73, 78, 82, 86–87, 122

  Mill, John Stuart, 118

  Minimum Wage Laws, 32, 95–96

  Mismatching Students and Institutions, 66–67, 69–70, 130–131

  Moral Melodramas (see also Tragedy of the Human Condition), 5, 53, 80–81, 108, 111, 121, 133

  Morality, 30, 37, 89, 93, 118, 119, 120, 121, 123

  Motives, 83–84, 96

  Mulattoes, 41–43

  Multiculturalism, 51, 86, 102–106, 108

  Murray, Charles, 81, 82–83, 84

  Myrdal, Gunnar, 32, 77, 78, 88, 89, 125

  New York Times, 81, 91n, 92, 95, 96, 111–112, 130

  New Zealand, 21, 64, 86

  Newsweek Magazine, 93, 112–113

  Nigeria, 47, 89, 94, 129

  Nobel Laureates, 32, 34, 70–71

  Nordic Peoples, 21, 27, 36, 37

  Northern Europe, 19, 30, 31, 41

  Northern-born Blacks, 25, 77, 78, 99, 100

  Olmsted, Frederick Law, 77, 120

  Ottoman Empire, 7, 8, 15, 53, 89, 106

  The Passing of the Great Race, 21, 27–29

  Peer Consensus, 51, 77, 107

  Penns
ylvania, 25, 99

  Perceptions, 7, 109

  Philadelphia, 18, 42, 53, 91n, 97, 98, 114

  Poland, 8, 13, 25, 26, 36, 46, 106

  Polarization, 45–46, 49, 53, 91, 103, 106, 138

  Poles, 14, 25, 72, 106

  Polish Jews, 8, 19–20, 24, 28, 36, 46

  Poverty, 93, 112, 115, 116, 117, 127, 139

  Predictive Validity of Tests, 64–67, 162 (note 19)

  Preferential Policies, 49, 94, 104, 127, 128, 129–131

  Privilege versus Achievement, 52–53

  Progress and Retrogression, 97–98, 126–127

  Progressive Era, 24–43, 56, 59, 62, 70–71, 73, 82

  Race

  the race industry: 128–136

  racial discrimination: 14, 15, 18, 26, 47, 52, 56, 65, 97–98, 104–106, 116, 122, 124, 127, 133–135, 137

  racial identity: 21, 45, 47, 49, 110–111, 133

  racial paranoia: 124

  racial pride: 30

  racial segregation: vii, 39–40

  racism: 90–91, 92, 93–101, 109, 125

  Randomness, 19–20, 42

  Rawls, John, 111, 115, 117, 130

  Recantation, 72, 87

  Romania, 46–48

  Romans, 13, 15, 41, 43, 121

  Renorming IQ Test Results, 74

  Residential Clustering, 19–20, 96–97, 98

  Roosevelt, Franklin D., 35–36

  Roosevelt, Theodore, 34, 35, 36, 39, 40, 155 (note 116)

  Ross, Edward A., 29–30, 33–34, 35

  Russia, 8, 9, 25, 26, 31

  Sanger, Margaret, 27, 61

  Saturday Evening Post, 29, 36

  Scholastic Aptitude Test, 26, 66, 70

  Schools, 5, 18, 24, 38

  Science, 21, 23, 24, 36, 72, 87–88, 89

  Scotland, 9–10, 37, 40–41, 48, 67, 72

  Scots, 9, 40–41, 44, 45, 48n, 50

  Second World War, 52, 75, 81, 82, 87, 88, 100, 111

  Sex Differences in IQ, 66, 71n, 78–79

  Skills, 11, 15, 16, 22, 43, 44, 45, 50, 94, 95, 96, 98, 104–105, 108, 124, 137

  Slavery, 3, 42, 75, 118–121

  immorality: 118, 119

  legacy: 120, 121, 126, 127

  race: 118, 119–120

  Western civilization: 118–120

  Slavs, 1, 14, 21, 37, 71, 119

  Social Justice (see also Cosmic Justice), 16, 45, 46, 104, 117, 129

  Soft Subject Intellectuals, 46, 47

  South Africa, 2, 68, 72, 96

  Southern Europe, 24, 29, 30, 31, 37, 43

  Southern United States, 2, 25, 37, 38, 77, 78, 79, 80, 88, 90, 98–99, 100, 101, 111, 120

  Southern Whites, 25, 38, 39, 77, 78, 98–99, 120

  Spain, 5, 37, 47

  Spaniards, 8, 12, 72

  Sri Lanka (see also Ceylon), 47, 48, 49, 94

  Statistics, 4–5, 6, 17, 22, 56, 73, 107, 115–116

  correlation versus causation: 22, 23

  national average: 71

  statistics withheld: 70

  Supreme Court of the United States, 17, 76, 105, 122, 134

  Terman, Lewis, 26, 66

  Tocqueville, Alexis de, 77–78, 120

  Toronto, 20, 52

  Tragedy of the Human Condition, 111

  Turks, 8, 14, 89, 105–106

  Unemployment, 46, 48, 93, 95–96

  United States of America, vii, 2, 5, 6, 7, 9, 12, 13, 15, 17, 20, 27, 32, 33, 34, 37, 42, 46, 51, 53, 54, 67, 68, 72, 74, 75, 79, 80, 82, 86, 88, 89, 90, 91, 96, 97, 100, 105, 116, 119, 120, 122, 123, 126, 127, 129, 130, 138, 139

  Urban League, 92, 101

  Verbal Virtuosity, 3–4, 90, 109, 111, 115

  Victimhood, 91, 135

  Violence, 1, 18, 47, 49–50, 92–93, 100, 110

  Visions, 80, 90–92, 105, 108, 112, 113, 121, 123, 125, 128, 139

  Walker, Francis A., 29, 30–31, 33, 34, 35

  Washington, D.C., 39, 42, 43, 76, 97, 99, 114

  West Coast, 100, 111

  Western Civilization, 41, 86, 118–120

  Western Hemisphere, 11, 42, 49, 50, 86, 118, 119

  Wheel, 11

  Whites, 1, 2, 92, 123

  black-white comparisons: 4, 5–6, 13, 19, 24, 25, 26, 37, 38, 61, 63, 64, 65–67, 68, 70, 71, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 80, 82, 88, 89, 90, 91, 93, 95–96, 98, 112, 114, 116–117, 119, 120, 123, 124–125, 126

  lower-class whites in Britain: 3, 76, 87, 91, 116, 123, 126–127

  North-South differences among whites: 98–99, 120

  racial problems originating in the minds of whites: 89, 90, 96–97, 99, 125

  white males: 104

  white slaves: 119

  white Southerners: 25, 38, 39, 77–78

  Wicker, Tom, 111–112, 114

  Wilson, Woodrow, 34, 37, 39–40, 53

  Yale University, 28, 33, 40

 

 

 


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