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Do races differ mentally?

__**The Power of Race**__ Citation: Espenshade, Thomas J. "The Power of Race." //Inside Higher Ed//. 03 09 2009. Inside Higher Ed, Web. 11 Nov 2009. <[]>.

This website is mainly talking about the differences in advantages and disadvantages for races in academics. It was very useful in providing statistics and very specific examples. [|Thomas J. Espenshade] is Professor of Sociology and Faculty Associate of the Office of Population Research. He is director of the National Study of College Experience (NSCE) and Campus Life in America Student Survey (CLASS) projects. His past research has concentrated on social demography, with a particular emphasis on population economics, mathematical demography, family and household demography, and contemporary immigration to the United States.His current research is focused on diversity in higher education; Espenshade received his Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton in 1972. Prior to joining the Princeton faculty in 1988, he held teaching or research positions at the University of California-Berkeley, Bowdoin College, Florida State University, The Urban Institute (in Washington, DC), and Brown University.This site doesn't have very much of a bias, because it was mainly using statistics. The site content was more factual rather than opinion based. The scope of this article is based in the United States.

__**Intelligence and How to get it: Why schools and cultures count**__ Parenthetical Citations: (Nisbett 1-20) (Nisbett 153-170) (Nisbett 78-92) (Nisbett 103-109)

Citation: Nisbett, Richard. //Intelligence and How to Get it: Why schools and cultures count//. 1st. 1. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2009. Print.

This book was written by Richard E. Nisbett, published in 2009, regarding different aspects of intelligence. The basic message of this book is a simple one about the power of the environment to influence intelligence potential, and more specifically about the role that schools and cultures play in affecting the environment. This book also argues against the general consensus in behavioral genetics that intelligence is largely inherited. This source is biased because it is written from a white man's perspective. Almost everything is comparing blacks to whites, or Asians to Westerners (whites). Richard E. Nisbett is a Professor of social psychology and co-director of the Culture and Cognition program at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. Richard Nisbett's research interests are in social cognition, culture, social class and aging. Nisbett received his A.B. Psychology major from Tufts University. He received his Ph.D. from Columbia University. He has written numerous books on intelligence and cultural psychology and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences. The scope of this article was based around the world and has sections from different continents.

To find out more about Richard E. Nisbett, go to his personal webpage: [|http://www-personal.umich.edu/~nisbett/]