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As a critique of The Bell Curve, this article briefly explores ideas about intelligence, "race," and the relationship of those ideas to the place of Blacks in America's political economy. The analysis examines the role of intellectuals in their respective periods in shaping knowledge about intelligence and race. The eugenics movement, including its leaders, and the relationship of their ideas to the political economy in the early 1900s will be explored as being particularly relevant for our understanding The Bell Curve in the present context. A sociology of knowledge framework will be employed to examine the changing roles of African Americans in the labor force and the ideas that seek to legitimize their changing roles, including their increasing "obsolescence" and declining need for their labor. Finally, the developments in our political economy that set the stage for a Charles Murray will be explored; this will include pointing out the direct relationship between The Bell Curve and current politics and policy.

Intro -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- From Wichita to Washington -- Black Activism Encounters American Political Science -- Political Strategist and Public Intellectual -- Major Themes in Walters' Writings and Work -- Overview of Chapters -- Notes -- Part I -- 1. Our Tallest Tree: An Essay toward a Biography of Ronald Walters -- The Walters' Roots: Kansas, Wichita, and the "American Dilemma" -- Racial Tensions of the 1910s and 1920s in America and Texas -- The Twenties and the Walters Clan Move to Wichita -- Black Schooling in Wichita: Growing Up Black in Wichita Kansas in the 1940s and 1950s -- Ron's Wichita Public School Years: 1943-1955 -- Turner's Drugstore: The Corner -- Dunbar Elementary School: The Black Community's Center -- Wichita High School East: "The Corner" -- Boys State and Boys Nation: A Meeting with the President -- Entering the University of Wichita -- The Transition from "Student" to Scholar: Pursuing a Black Intellectual Tradition -- From the Study of Africa to Black Studies -- From Kansas to National Prominence: Ron Walters as the "Tallest Tree" -- References -- 2. The Groundbreaking Wichita Sit-In Movement: An Essay in Appreciation of Ronald Walters' Scholarly and Political Contributions -- The Famous Civil Rights Movement -- Civil Rights Movement and Scholarly Analyses -- Blind Spots in the Southern Perspective on the Civil Rights Movement -- Racism in Wichita and Seeds of Rebellion -- Protest in Wichita: Groundbreaking Lunch Counter Sit-Ins -- Wichita's Sit-Ins as Innovative Model -- References -- 3. Reflections -- Part II -- 4. The Black Science in Political Science -- Black Science Political Science Frameworks -- The Costs of Engaging in Black Science Research -- References.