ABSTRACT
If the ‘race and IQ’ controversy has dominated public awareness of Psychology’s concerns with ‘race’ in recent decades, there have been far weightier, if less visible, developments of more long-term significance. In this chapter I will attempt a brief overview of some of these, before offering my closing observations on the present situation. The relative brevity of the coverage here compared with that given to the race and IQ, controversy is overdetermined: insofar as these developments break new ground they are not yet amenable to historical consideration, their range is extremely wide thus ruling out any comprehensive treatment and they are readily accessible in a way in which much of the material previously examined is not. The race and IQ controversy, by contrast, represents the latest instalment of a long-running saga and has monopolised public media attention. It thus required a fuller exegesis.
