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A review essay on a book edited by Russell Jacoby & Naomi Glauberman, The Bell Curve Debate: History, Documents, Origins (New York City: Times Books, 1995). While most criticisms of Richard J. Herrnstein & Charles Murray's The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life (1994 [see abstract 95c02104]) have centered on the chapters demonstrating that African Americans scored lower on IQ tests than Anglo Americans because of cognitive inferiority, several critics have contended that examination differences are attributable to genetic inheritance, arguing that the selective interpretation of previous data & the inability to distinguish between causation & correlation problematize The Bell Curve's conclusion, & claiming that the sources selected as evidence of genetic inferiority among African Americans were racist anthropological journals that favored racial domination. It is concluded that issues of gender have been ignored in criticisms on The Bell Curve, further, the conclusions offered by Herrnstein & Murray are idyllic representations of 19th-century societies & render little support for the socioeconomic reanimation of African American neighborhoods. J. W. Parker

Traces the emergence of an early black populism in northern US urban centers during the 1930s-1940s to suggest that these efforts foreshadowed the civil rights movement of the 1960s & other efforts in the 1970s to attain political power. These early efforts are described as emanating from the failure of post-Civil War Reconstruction in the South, & the subsequent wide-spread migration of blacks to northern urban centers. Job campaigns & other political efforts by blacks during the Depression are described as outgrowths of the failure of nineteenth-century populism to appeal to blacks in any demonstrable manner. Ways in which contemporary populists may appeal to the black community in an effort to unite the races, & thereby avoid errors made by nineteenth-century populists, are discussed. D. M. Smith

Prologue : African Americans in the German Democratic Republic / Victor Grossman -- An unexpected alliance : August Willich, Peter H. Clark, and the abolitionist movement in Cincinnati / Mischa Honeck -- German immigrants and African Americans in Charleston, South Carolina, 1850-1880 / Jeffery Strickland -- Louis Douglas and the Weimar reception of Harlemania / Leroy Hopkins -- Race in the Reich : the African American press on Nazi Germany / Larry A. Greene -- Field trip into the twilight : a German Africanist discovers the Black bourgeoisie at Howard University, 1937-1939 / Berndt Ostendorf -- Love across the color line : the limits of German and American democracy, 1945-1968 / Maria Höhn -- The erotics of African American endurance, or, On the right side of history : White (West)-German public sentiment between pornotroping and civil rights solidarity / Sabine Broeck -- "Nazi Jim Crow" : Hans Jürgen Massaquoi's democratic vistas on the Black Atlantic and Afro-Germans in Ebony / Frank Mehring -- A raisin in the East : African American civil rights drama in GDR scholarship and theater practice / Astrid Haas -- Ollie Harrington : his portrait drawn on the basis of East German (GDR) secret service files / Aribert Schroeder -- Exploding Hitler and Americanizing Germany : occupying "Black" bodies and postwar desire / Damani Partridge -- Reconstructing "America" : the development of African American studies in the Federal Republic of Germany / Eva Boesenberg.