Claude Fischer is Distinguished Professor of the Graduate School in Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. His many books include Inequality by Design: Cracking the Bell Curve Myth.
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Claude Fischer is Distinguished Professor of the Graduate School in Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. His many books include Inequality by Design: Cracking the Bell Curve Myth.
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