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
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| Acknowledgments |
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| Introduction: Histories of Psychology and Race |
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| I. Foundations of Psychology and Race Before 1900 |
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Chapter 1. Type and Essence: Prologue to the History of Psychology and Race |
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Chapter 2. The Concept of Race in the Life and Thought of Francis Galton |
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| II. Psychology, Science, and "Race Mixing" |
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Chapter 3. The Historical Problematization of "Mixed Race" in Psychological and Human-Scientific Discourses |
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Chapter 4. "Inharmoniously Adapted to Each Other": Science and Racial Crosses |
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109 | (26) |
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| III. Cultural Contexts and 20th-Century Psychology |
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Chapter 5. "It's an American Thing": The "Race" and Intelligence Controversy From a British Perspective |
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Chapter 6. Race and Psychology in South Africa |
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Johann Louw and Don Foster |
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Chapter 7. Constructing Difference: Heredity, Intelligence, and Race in Textbooks, 1930-1970 |
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199 | (32) |
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Andrew S. Winston, Bethany Butzer, and Mark D. Ferris |
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| IV. Confronting Racism |
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231 | (54) |
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Chapter 8. Antiracist Work in the Desegregation Era: The Scientific Activism of Kenneth Bancroft Clark |
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Chapter 9. "Racially Stuffed Shirts and Other Enemies of Mankind": Horace Mann Bond's Parody of Segregationist Psychology in the 1950's |
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| Author Index |
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285 | (8) |
| Subject Index |
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293 | (10) |
| About the Editor |
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