Race and Intelligence: Science's Last Taboo

David Hickman

Race and Intelligence: Science's Last Taboo

Theatre, Film, TV and Interactive Media

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Abstract

This feature-length documentary followed Somali-born journalist Rageh Omaar through forbidden territory – but one still inhabited largely by small groups of university academics whose allegiances to ideas about racial hierarchies of intelligence remain strong. Omaar encounters the related problem of a liberal refusal to engage in the debate, and discusses one of the social consequences of this stand-off – that the educational underachievement of large numbers of black students in the US (and to an extent in the UK) is swept under the carpet. I directed produced, co-wrote and photographed the film.

Original language	English
Place of Publication	Channel Four
Publisher	Channel Four
Media of output	Television Programme
Size	1 hr 15 mins
Publication status	Published - 26 Oct 2009

Keywords

Race
Intelligence
IQ

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