The Entanglement of Racism and Individualism : The US National Defense Education Act of 1958 and the Individualization of "Intelligence" and Educational Policy

• While Primarily Concerned with Developments in the 1950s, this analysis begins by reexamining the historiography of IQ and intelligence testing in the first half of the 20th century, indicating that it has emerged emphasis on the individualization of "intelligence" in the Stanford / Iowa IQ debates of the 1930s. Given the character and tendency of the trend that emerges, one which situates conceptions of racial and individual "intelligence" as entangled and co-evolving ideologies. National Defense Education Act (NDEA) hearings and related NDEA-era texts. asserted that such individualization of educational opportunity was a scientifically objective, "race" neutral process,

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HUMANIORA  -- Historia och arkeologi -- Historia (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- History and Archaeology -- History (hsv//eng)

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National Defense Education Act

"Race

" "Intelligence

" Educational Opportunity

Cold War

Brown v. Board

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History

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