1. Does Race Equal Smartness?
Paul Escobar
August 24, 2012
Humanities
MCLA 8th Grade
Does Race Equal Smartness?

2. Tezkatlipoka - Self Reflection
The questions that we were posed with were , who has knowledge , what knowledge is important , and who decides what is being put into 8th grade books ?
My question was “Do people think certain races are smarter “
I chose this question because I thought it was interesting to see what people were going to say and what the results would be.

3. Quetzalkoatl - Precious Knowledge - Literature Review
Back in ancient times they believed that your smartness came from either your head size or it was just a gene throughout your family .
Galton believed that the smartness ran through the families phrenology.
Scientists tried to prove that certain races had larger brains.
Binet is a man from the 1900's and he was the creater of the IQ test , it is meant to test the intelligence of anyone .
Stereo type-threats are “the event of negative stereo type of a group.
Today's smartness is all based on test and those who can take them .

4. Huiztlilopochtli - The Will to Act
My research question was “Are certain races smarter than others ?”
I did interviews with 7th graders they were about 11 or 12 years of age .
MY results were pretty interesting and predicting here are the results : for question 1 we got that 70% of the students said that Hispanics were more likely to join a gang , for the second question we got that : all 20 students that we interview said that Asians and Hispanics are the smartest . Lastly on out last question we got that 8 of students agreed that Asians were more likely to succeed in school.

5. Xipe Totek - Transformation
My finding are transforming because they benefit the Asians and making the African American's not feel smart .

6. Works Cited
Hatt, Beth. "Smartness as a Cultural Practice in Schools." American Education Research Journal (2012): 438. Print. Mullick, Nirvan, , dir. Caine's Arcade. Film. 17 Aug <http//: Wanjek, Christopher. Bad Medicine: Misconceptions and Misuses. New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, inc., Print.