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Michael E. Staub is Professor of English and American Studies at Barch College, City University of New York. His most recent book is The Mismeasure of Minds: Debating Race and Intelligence Between Brown and The Bell Curve.
Twenty-five years after The Bell Curve, debates about racial inequality continue to appeal to biology—on both sides.
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