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

by Guthrie, Robert V.

• ISBN13: 9780205392643
• ISBN10: 0205392644
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-03-28
• Publisher: Pearson

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.

Table of Contents

Foreword	xi
Preface to the Second Edition	xiii
Preface to the First Edition	xix
PART I Psychology and Racial Differences	1	(110)
1 "The Noble Savage" and Science	3	(31)
Religious Views	7	(1)
Philosophical and Scientific Views	8	(1)
The Noble Savage View	8	(1)
Smithsonian Institution	8	(1)
Skin Color Measurement	9	(7)
Hair Texture Measurements	16	(5)
Measuring Hair Color	21	(1)
Measuring Thickness of Lips	22	(1)
Anthropometry and Blacks	22	(3)
Defining Racial Differences	25	(3)
Classification of Black-White Mixtures	28	(1)
Cultural Anthropologists	28	(1)
Early Black Anthropologists	29	(1)
"No Scientific Basis for Discrimination"	30	(1)
Notes	30	(4)
2 Brass Instruments and Dark Skins	34	(21)
Ethnical Psychology	35	(2)
Racial Designations	37	(4)
Literary and Philosophical Biases	41	(1)
Nativism: Themes o f Racial Differences	42	(4)
American Psychology and Racial Investigation	46	(3)
Archives of Psychology and Racial Studies	49	(3)
Notes	52	(3)
3 Psychometric Scientism	55	(33)
How Significant Are Significant Differences?	56	(1)
Mental Tests	57	(3)
Stanford-Binet Revisions	60	(1)
Lewis Terman	61	(2)
Black-White Mental Testing	63	(2)
Child to Adult and Individual to Mass Testing	65	(4)
Postwar Psychological Measurements	69	(1)
The United States Indian Schools	70	(1)
Mexican Americans and IQ Testing	71	(2)
The Mulatto Hypotheses	73	(2)
Reactions of Black Scholars and Communities	75	(3)
Black Graduate Students Respond	78	(2)
Intelligence Testing and the Courts	80	(1)
Wechsler-Bellevue Scale	80	(1)
Personality Testing of Minority Groups	81	(2)
Race Studies and Anti-Semitism	83	(1)
Notes	83	(5)
4 Psychology and Race	88	(23)
Suspicious Statistical Shenanigans	89	(3)
White Rats and Mazes	92	(1)
Psychology and Eugenics	93	(2)
Carnegie Station for Experimental Evolution	95	(3)
Applied Eugenics and Euthenics	98	(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