Defining Difference

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Edition: 1st
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2003-08-01
Publisher(s): Amer Psychological Assn
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Summary

Univ. of Guelph, Canada. Analyzes the concept of race and the ideas of race in 19th and 20th century psychology. Explores the link between racial studies and social attitudes in our time and provides a comprehensive examination of that link throughout history. Also discusses the prominence and persistence of American research on racial differences in intelligence.

Author Biography

Andrew S. Winston, PhD, is a professor of psychology at the University of Guelph in Guelph, Ontario, Canada Bethany Butzer, BA, Department of Psychology, University of Western Ontario, Canada Raymond E. Fancher, PhD, Department of Psychology, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Mark D. Ferris, MLIS, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Don Foster, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, Republic of South Africa John P. Jackson, Jr., PhD, Department of Communication, University of Colorado, Boulder Johann Louw, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, Republic of South Africa Layli Phillips, PhD, Women's Studies Institute, Georgia State University, Atlanta Graham Richards, DLitt, Department of Psychology, Staffordshire University, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England Thomas Teo, PhD, Department of Psychology, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada William H. Tucker, PhD, Department of Psychology, Rutgers University -- Camden, NJ Fredric Weizmann, PhD, Department of Psychology, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Andrew S. Winston, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada

Table of Contents

Contributors ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction: Histories of Psychology and Race 3(16)
Andrew S. Winston
I. Foundations of Psychology and Race Before 1900 19(58)
Chapter 1. Type and Essence: Prologue to the History of Psychology and Race
21(28)
Fredric Weizmann
Chapter 2. The Concept of Race in the Life and Thought of Francis Galton
49(28)
Raymond E. Faucher
II. Psychology, Science, and "Race Mixing" 77(58)
Chapter 3. The Historical Problematization of "Mixed Race" in Psychological and Human-Scientific Discourses
79(30)
Thomas Teo
Chapter 4. "Inharmoniously Adapted to Each Other": Science and Racial Crosses
109(26)
William H. Tucker
III. Cultural Contexts and 20th-Century Psychology 135(96)
Chapter 5. "It's an American Thing": The "Race" and Intelligence Controversy From a British Perspective
137(34)
Graham Richards
Chapter 6. Race and Psychology in South Africa
171(28)
Johann Louw and Don Foster
Chapter 7. Constructing Difference: Heredity, Intelligence, and Race in Textbooks, 1930-1970
199(32)
Andrew S. Winston, Bethany Butzer, and Mark D. Ferris
IV. Confronting Racism 231(54)
Chapter 8. Antiracist Work in the Desegregation Era: The Scientific Activism of Kenneth Bancroft Clark
233(28)
Layli Phillips
Chapter 9. "Racially Stuffed Shirts and Other Enemies of Mankind": Horace Mann Bond's Parody of Segregationist Psychology in the 1950's
261(24)
John P. Jackson, Jr.
Author Index 285(8)
Subject Index 293(10)
About the Editor 303

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