Elaine Mensh and Harry Mensh

Elaine Mensh (1924-2001) and Harry Mensh (1908-2002), American co-authors, are best known for their collaborative works critiquing IQ testing and racial representations in literature, including The IQ Mythology: Class, Race, Gender, and Inequality (1991), which won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in 1992, and Black, White, and Huckleberry Finn: Re-imagining the American Dream (2000). Their writing focused on issues of class, race, gender inequality, and American literary canon, with Harry having a background as an economist, Spanish Civil War veteran, and US Army enlistee. pages found.