This collection of essays addresses the perceived connections between race and intelligence. It aims to act as an antidote to the ideas advocated in the publication "The Bell Curve".

The recent publication of The Bell Curve, with its controversial claims of a link between race and intelligence, has ignited a fierce debate between those who say intelligence is genetically inherited and those who decry such pronouncements as thinly veiled racism.

Race and IQ is the definitive response to The Bell Curve, and those who claim it offers scientific validiction for their ideas. An updated and expanded collection of essays by such leading scholars as Stephen Jay Gould, Richard Lewontin, and Jerome Kagan, it offers a brilliantly lucid exploration of the concepts and misconceptions about race and intelligence.