EQUALLY CAPABLE EQUALLY SMART - A Candid Look at Race Gender and Intelligence in Our Society

Equally Capable Equally Smart is a book about human intelligence. It tackles the perennial and controversial issues of race and gender differences in intellectual abilities. It addresses intelligence as an important personal, national, and international asset that is to be valued and developed. This book is written for a wide and diverse reading population. The main purpose of this book is to highlight the consequences and implications of high and low intelligence to society. It matters if we are highly intelligent, of above and average ability, or intellectually challenged. Our salaries and jobs, places we spend our pastime and money, the cars we drive and the houses we occupy are intricately linked to our intelligence. Our nation's scientific and technological accomplishments, economic affluence and poverty, social mobility and civility, are directly connected to and significantly influenced by the intellectual abilities of its citizens. For any nation to prosper economically, politically and socially, the issue of intelligence must be seriously discussed and appropriately addressed. This volume candidly scrutinizes and openly discusses some of the myths and truths that have been written about race, gender and intelligence. It stands apart from many of its kind, by brining good news to its readers, by showing that human beings are not born great but develop greatness. The inequalities in academic achievements among some racial groups are not fixed by nature, but are in a fluid state that can be changed by human determination and manipulation. Much of what our society deems intelligent behaviors have been transmitted through coaching, teaching, learning, and modeling rather than natural endowment. It also points out that that no race or gender has the monopoly on intelligence. It argues that in every race there are few individuals of superior intellectual abilities, the majority with above and average intelligence, and a small percentage with intellectual challenges. Within each chapter of this book, several factors that affect the intelligence of individuals and groups are clearly identified and critically discussed. The unique, candid, and informative techniques used to engage the readers; bring a fresh, enlightening, and invigorating strategy in debating the topic of race, gender and intelligence. This well researched work is written to appeal to the scholarship and curiosity of those with expertise and interest in the fields of anthropology, education, psychology, sociology, learning and related fields. This book is written to excite the appetites of the avid readers of any subject, with satisfying and substantive information.