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Institute for the Study of Academic Racism (ISAR)

Link: http://www.ferris.edu/ISAR/

The Institute for the Study of Academic Racism is a long-standing organization of academics and researchers. Top pick articles include Garland Allen's "Science Misapplied: The Eugenics Age Revisited,_ that surveys the history of eugenics. Val Dusek's "Sociobiology Sanitized: Evolutionary Psychology and Gene Selection_ surveys the change from sociobiology in the '70s and its political embarrassment to its name change to evolutionary psychology. Dusek discusses identical twin studies fraud, the attempt to discredit Margaret Mead in anthropology, brain difference research, etc.Steven Gelb, ed., "Rewriting Mental Testing History,_ reviews the dark side of the use of mental tests and its cover-up in standard accounts. Lastly, see S. Winston's "Psychology, Racism and Fascism._ This work summarizes history events uncovering ex-Nazis involved in "respectable_ psychology and anthropology race research journals. The work ties figures such as Jensen and Eysenck to ex-storm troopers and contemporary neo-Nazis. Biographies at site include psychologist Raymond B. Cattell, noted testing psychologist, who was slated for an American Psychology Association award until his praise of Hitler was publicized, and other racist academics such as Glade Whitney, Florida Psychology Professor, who is a supporter of David Duke. The ICAR site contains material on Pioneer Fund with its founding statement of propagating genes of original white inhabitants of US, funder of much contemporary research on race differences, vocations, and IQ.

• Cataloged: 2003-01-01
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• Author/Creator: Institute for the Study of Academic Racism (ISAR)
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• Beneficiary: Learning organization / school system: Higher Education
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• Educational Type: Secondary source
• Language: English
• Learning Type: Narrative Text
• Network/channel: Equity
• Network/channel: Equity: Heterogeneity

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