Critical Cataloging: Examining LCSH as Text: A Visualization by Mia Tignor

Intelligence levels – Chinese – Javanese – Jews – Negroes – Shilluks

The particularized subheadings imply that these five peoples must either be hyper- or sub-intelligent, no other comparable groups have (apparently) been the subjects of special intelligence research. Moreover, they suggest that race or ethnicity are exclusive casual factors in intelligence. 

Sanford Berman, Prejudices and Antipathies, 1971, p. 57. 

Remedy: Add more subheads to reflect many races and nationalities (not just these five), or change to geographic subdivisions. 

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