xxi, 282 pages : 23 cm Even The Rat Was White views 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 Includes bibliographical references (pages 254-270) and index PART I Psychology and Racial Differences -- 1 "The Noble Savage" and Science -- Religious Views -- Philosophical and Scientific Views -- The Noble Savage View -- Smithsonian Institution -- Skin Color Measurement -- Hair Texture Measurements -- Measuring Hair Color -- Measuring Thickness of Lips -- Anthropometry and Blacks -- Defining Racial Differences -- Classification of Black-White Mixtures -- Cultural Anthropologists -- Early Black Anthropologists -- "No Scientific Basis for Discrimination" -- Notes -- 2 Brass Instruments and Dark Skins -- Ethnical Psychology -- Racial Designations -- Literary and Philosophical Biases -- Nativism: Themes of Racial Differences -- American Psychology and Racial Investigation -- Archives of Psychology and Racial Studies -- Notes -- 3 Psychometric Scientism -- How Significant Are Significant Differences? -- Mental Tests -- Stanford-Binet Revisions -- Lewis Terman -- Black-White Mental Testing -- Child to Adult and Individual to Mass Testing -- Postwar Psychological Measurements -- The United States Indian Schools -- Mexican Americans and IQ Testing -- The Mulatto Hypotheses -- Reactions of Black Scholars and Communities -- Black Graduate Students Respond -- Intelligence Testing and the Courts -- Wechsler-Bellevue Scale -- Personality Testing of Minority Groups -- Race Studies and Anti-Semitism -- Notes -- 4 Psychology and Race -- Suspicious Statistical Shenanigans -- White Rats and Mazes -- Psychology and Eugenics -- Carnegie Station for Experimental Evolution -- Applied Eugenics and Euthenics -- Findings of the Research Committee -- Sterilization Laws -- "Degenerate" Families -- Eurocentrism: Cycle of Scientific Racism -- The Pioneer Fund -- Black Americans and Psychology -- Notes -- PART II Psychology and Psychologists -- 5 The Psychology of Survival and Education -- The Psychology of Survival -- Identification with the Slave Master -- Flight and Escape Reactions -- Aggressive Reactions -- The Emergence of Black Colleges -- Teaching Psychology in Black Colleges: Similarities Not Differences -- Library and Research Facilities in Black Colleges -- Notes -- 6 Black Psychologists: Training Employment and Organizations -- Philanthropic Foundations -- Employment in the Black College -- Black Psychologists Organize -- Toward a Black Psychology -- Toward Traditional Psychology -- Notes -- 7 Production of Black Psychologists in America -- Notes -- 8 Francis Cecil Sumner: -- Father of Black American Psychologists -- Notes -- PART III Conclusion -- 9 The Past Is Prologue -- The Myth of Mental Measurement -- Psychology and Politics -- Old Wine New Bottles -- The Bell Curve: 'Round and 'Round We Go -- Notes -- Appendix A: Statement on Racial Psychology by The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI) 1938 -- Appendix B: List of Respondents to the 1930 Questionnaire Concerning the Validity of the Mulatto Hypotheses (Chapter 3) -- Appendix C: Miscegenation Laws in the United States -- Appendix D: Application to Howard University in 1872 for a Professorship in Chemistry from G. Stanley Hall -- Appendix E: Psychology Instructors at Howard University 1867-1940 -- Appendix F: Master Degree Graduates in Psychology, Howard University 1927-1950 -- Appendix G Selected Bibliography of Psychological Studies, 1920-1946 -- Bibliography -- Name Index -- Subject Index