Citation

Price JD, Cutler CE. J. Black Psychol. 2001; 27(4): 477-495.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2001, Association of Black Psychologists, Publisher SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/0095798401027004006

PMID

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Abstract

Herrnstein and Murray’s racist tome, The Bell Curve, becomes the occasion for an examination of issues related to authority and power. Their analysis of society and, more important, what they leave out allows the authors the opportunity to reexamine the ways in which people who have been denied power have successfully challenged oppression and oppressors. It is only when we have this understanding that we can consider and put into use effective strategies for change.