- Collection:
- Vietnam War Era Ephemera Collection
- Title:
- Dove Counterbalance Intelligence Test
- Creator:
- Adrian Dove
- Contributor to Resource:
- University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division.
- Date of Original:
- 1968
- Subject:
- Racism--United States
Race discrimination--United States
Intelligence tests--United States - Location:
- United States, Washington, King County, Seattle, 47.60621, -122.33207
- Medium:
- pamphlets
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Alternative title: The Black American IQ Test for Honkies Background information: “It doesn’t take a high IQ to recognize that intelligence tests have a built-in cultural bias that discriminates against black children. Tests designed to measure how logically a child can reason often use concepts foreign to the ghetto: a Harlem child who has never handled money or seen a farm animal, for example, might be asked a question that assumes knowledge of quarters and cows. Adrian Dove, a sociologist and a Negro, for one, knows that black children have their own culture and language that ‘white’ tests don’t take into account. He saw this clearly when he worked with white civic and business leaders after the Watts riots. ‘I was talking Watts language by day,’ he says, ‘and then translating it so the guys in the corporations could understand it at night.’ Dove then designed his own exam, the Dove Counterbalance General Intelligence Test (the ‘Chitling Test’) with 30 multiple-choice questions, ‘as a half-serious idea to show that we’re just not talking the same language.’ The test has appeared in the Negro weekly Jet as well as in white newspapers, but mostly, says the 32-year-old Dove, ‘it has been floating around underground.’” (Taking the Chitling Test. (1968, July 15). Newsweek, 72, 51-52)
- Metadata URL:
- https://digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu/digital/collection/protests/id/349
- Additional Rights Information:
- For information on permissions for use and reproductions please visit UW Libraries Special Collections Use Permissions page: http://www.lib.washington.edu/specialcollections/services/permission-for-use
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: University of Washington Libraries/id/ Special Collections, [Order Number or Negative Number]
- Extent:
- 28 x 21 cm
Scanned from original text at 400 dpi in color, saved in JPEG format and resized to 600 ppi horizontal. Saved at compression rate 3. 2004. - Original Collection:
- Vietnam War Era Ephemera Collection
- Contributing Institution:
- University of Washington. Libraries. Special Collections Division
- Rights:
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