> 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