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035 _a(OCoLC)1375028984
037 _bTwo Rivers Distribution, C/O Ips Jackson 210 American Dr, Jackson, TN, USA, 38301-5070
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092 _a305.8009
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100 1 _aMac Donald, Heather,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aWhen race trumps merit :
_bhow the pursuit of equity sacrifices excellence, destroys beauty, and threatens lives /
_cHeather Mac Donald.
250 _aFirst edition.
264 1 _aNashville, TN :
_bDW Books, a division of the Daily Wire,
_c[2023]
264 4 _c©2023
300 _a319 pages ;
_c24 cm
336 _atext
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337 _aunmediated
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_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
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520 _a"Does your workplace have too few black people in top jobs? It's racist. Does the advanced math and science high school in your city have too many Asians? It's racist. Does your local museum employ too many white women? It's racist, too. After the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020, prestigious American institutions, from the medical profession to the fine arts, pleaded guilty to "systemic racism." How else explain why blacks are overrepresented in prisons and underrepresented in C-suites and faculty lounges, their leaders asked? The official answer for those disparities is "disparate impact," a once obscure legal theory that is now transforming our world. Any traditional standard of behavior or achievement that impedes exact racial proportionality in any enterprise is now presumed racist. Medical school admissions tests, expectations of scientific accomplishment in the award of research grants, the enforcement of the criminal law--all are under assault, because they have a "disparate impact" on underrepresented minorities. When Race Trumps Merit provides an alternative explanation for those racial disparities. It is large academic skills gaps that cause the lack of proportional representation in our most meritocratic organizations and large differences in criminal offending that account for the racially disproportionate prison population"--Dust jacket flap.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 279-319).
505 0 _aIntroduction: A cultural revolution -- Overview: the bias fallacy -- Part I: Science and medicine. Medicine's racial reckoning -- How 'diversity' subverts science -- Part II: Culture and arts. The crusade against classical music -- Scapegoats and the rise of mediocrity -- Making Beethoven woke -- Can opera survive the culture wars? -- The revolution comes to Juilliard -- The swamping of Swan Lake -- The demise of the docent -- Museums apologize for art -- An art museum cancels art -- Abstainers -- Part III: Law and order. A new crime wave -- The road to anarchy -- On double standards -- A grim--and ignored--body count -- Mass shootings, hate crimes, and race -- The Chauvin trial and its aftermath -- Conclusion: Saving meritocracy, saving a civilization.
650 0 _aRacism
_zUnited States.
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650 0 _aMerit (Ethics)
_xSocial aspects
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aEquality
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650 0 _aSociology.
651 0 _aUnited States
_xRace relations.
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