Even the Rat Was White A Historical View of Psychology (Allyn & Bacon Classics Edition)

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9780205392643
ISBN 10:
0205392644
Edition: 2nd
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 03/28/2003
Publisher: Pearson

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Summary

Even The Rat Was Whiteviews history from all perspectives in the quest for historical accuracy. Histories and other background materials are presented in detail concerning early African-American psychologists and their scientific contributions, as well as their problems, views, and concerns of the field of social psychology. Archival documents that are not often found in mainstream resources are uncovered through the use of journals and magazines, such as the Journal of Black Psychology, the Journal of Negro Education, and Crisis.The historical role of African-Americans in psychology.History of Psychology, Psychology of Prejudice.

Foreword

Preface to the Second Edition

xiii

Preface to the First Edition

xix

PART I Psychology and Racial Differences

(110)

1 "The Noble Savage" and Science

(31)

Religious Views

(1)

Philosophical and Scientific Views

(1)

The Noble Savage View

(1)

Smithsonian Institution

(1)

Skin Color Measurement

(7)

Hair Texture Measurements

(5)

Measuring Hair Color

(1)

Measuring Thickness of Lips

(1)

Anthropometry and Blacks

(3)

Defining Racial Differences

(3)

Classification of Black-White Mixtures

(1)

Cultural Anthropologists

(1)

Early Black Anthropologists

(1)

"No Scientific Basis for Discrimination"

(1)

Notes

(4)

2 Brass Instruments and Dark Skins

(21)

Ethnical Psychology

(2)

Racial Designations

(4)

Literary and Philosophical Biases

(1)

Nativism: Themes o f Racial Differences

(4)

American Psychology and Racial Investigation

(3)

Archives of Psychology and Racial Studies

(3)

Notes

(3)

3 Psychometric Scientism

(33)

How Significant Are Significant Differences?

(1)

Mental Tests

(3)

Stanford-Binet Revisions

(1)

Lewis Terman

(2)

Black-White Mental Testing

(2)

Child to Adult and Individual to Mass Testing

(4)

Postwar Psychological Measurements

(1)

The United States Indian Schools

(1)

Mexican Americans and IQ Testing

(2)

The Mulatto Hypotheses

(2)

Reactions of Black Scholars and Communities

(3)

Black Graduate Students Respond

(2)

Intelligence Testing and the Courts

(1)

Wechsler-Bellevue Scale

(1)

Personality Testing of Minority Groups

(2)

Race Studies and Anti-Semitism

(1)

Notes

(5)

4 Psychology and Race

(23)

Suspicious Statistical Shenanigans

(3)

White Rats and Mazes

(1)

Psychology and Eugenics

(2)

Carnegie Station for Experimental Evolution

(3)

Applied Eugenics and Euthenics

(2)

Findings of the Research Committee

100

(1)

Sterilization Laws

101

(2)

"Degenerate" Families

103

(1)

Eurocentrism: Cycle of Scientific Racism

104

(3)

The Pioneer Fund

107

(1)

Black Americans and Psychology

108

(1)

Notes

108

(3)

PART II Psychology and Psychologists

111

(122)

5 The Psychology of Survival and Education

113

(22)

The Psychology of Survival

114

(1)

Identifiction with the Slave Master

115

(1)

Flight and Escape Reactions

115

(3)

Aggressive Reactions

118

(2)

The Emergence of Black Colleges

120

(3)

Teaching Psychology in Black Colleges: Similarities, Not Differences

123

(5)

Library and Research Facilities in Black Colleges

128

(4)

Notes

132

(3)

6 Black Psychologists: Training, Employment, and Organizations

135

(20)

Philanthropic Foundations

137

(3)

Employment in the Black College

140

(2)

Black Psychologists Organize

142

(7)

Toward a Black Psychology

149

(2)

Toward Traditional Psychology

151

(1)

Notes

152

(3)

7 Production of Black Psychologists in America

155

(59)

Notes

213

(1)

8 Francis Cecil Sumner:

Father of Black American Psychologists

214

(16)

Notes

230

(3)

PART III Conclusion

233

9 The Past Is Prologue

235

(8)

The Myth of Mental Measurement

236

(1)

Psychology and Politics

237

(1)

Old Wine, New Bottles

238

(1)

The Bell Curve: 'Round and 'Round We Go

238

(2)

Notes

240

(3)

Appendix A: Statement on Racial Psychology by The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI), 1938

243

(2)

Appendix B: List of Respondents to the 1930 Questionnaire Concerning the Validity of the Mulatto Hypotheses (Chapter 3)

245

(3)

Appendix C: Miscegenation Laws in the United States

248

(1)

Appendix D: Application to Howard University in 1872 for a Professorship in Chemistry from G. Stanley Hall

249

(2)

Appendix E: Psychology Instructors at Howard University, 1867-1940

251

(1)

Appendix F: Master Degree Graduates in Psychology, Howard University, 1927-1950

252

(2)

Appendix G Selected Bibliography of Psychological Studies, 1920-1946

254

(5)

Bibliography

259

(12)

Name Index

271

(6)

Subject Index

277

Even the Rat Was White A Historical View of Psychology (Allyn & Bacon Classics Edition)

9780205392643

0205392644

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