Race Evolution & Behavior

[Maureen Therese Anderson]

Kelly asked:

> is this book being promoted in
>anthro and other social sciences?  anyone else get something like this.
>i've not checked the  mail from my uni, but it seems to have been
>distributed en mass from the numerous postings on a soc list.

Yes I too received this astounding book of high-19th century racism a
couple days ago.  Do you know if anyone _not_ affiliated with a univ
department has been sent a copy?  Mine, too, came to home rather than
departmental address, which is weird.  I've asked a couple other friends
here at UC, also AAA members and also ocassional course instructors (hence
book-orderers), if they've received it but so far no.

Please let me know if you hear from other lists of any pattern to who's
being targeted or who's behind the mailings.  I see in the back of the book
that bulk ordering brings the $6 book all the way down to $600 for a
thousand copies.  So I'm wondering if Transaction itself is behind the
mailings, or if some conservative group has gotten their hands on
directories and is on an educator-targetting blitz.

Which is a frightening scenario because the book makes _Bell Curve_ look
downright liberal.  And there it is backed by all these "neutral" studies
in respectable scientific journals, reinforcing every stereotype (sexual,
emotional, cognitive) potential readers have ever heard, along with a
well-crafted devil's advocate section at the end of the book, addressing
dozens of strawman objections by those brainwashed into the politically
correct delusion that racial inequalities have only political, social and
economic causes and no genetic ones.  All delivered in the measured tone of
the neutral seeker of truth, modestly suggesting that all humanity would be
better served if we looked unflinchingly at the facts, and other such
reach-for-barf-bag spins.

nauseously,
Maureen