Race, racism, and psychology : towards a reflexive history / Graham Richards.
Race, Racism and Psychology shows how difficult it is for psychology to be an objective science, especially when dealing with issues like race. By examining psychology's treatment of race and racism issues since the nineteenth century, Graham Richards finds that the discipline has been an impor...
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Routledge,
1997.
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1. The pre-evolutionary background and the roots of Scientific Racism
- 2. Psychology and 'Scientific Racism' 1860-1910
- 3. An imperial interlude: the Cambridge Torres Straits Expedition and its aftermath
- 4. 'Race' in US Psychology to 1945: I. The rise and nature of 'Race Psychology'
- 5. 'Race' in US Psychology to 1945: II. The rise of anti-racism
- 6. 'Race' in European Psychology to 1940: I. Primitive minds and Aryan supermen
- 7. 'Race' in European Psychology to 1940: II. Its presence and absence in British Psychology
- 8. Racism at bay: Psychology and 'race' 1945-69
- 9. Race and IQ 1969-96: An undead controversy
- 10. Bringing it all back home
- 11. Resume
- Appendix: Comments on J.P. Rushton's table of 'Mongoloid', 'Caucasoid', 'Negroid' rankings
- Bibliography
- T.R. Garth biography
- Name index
- Subject index.