Even the Rat Was White A Historical View of

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

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

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