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General Idea of Western Psychology

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African people were inferior

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Carl Gustav Jung*

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Student of Sigmund Freud; Gave lectures pointing out that living in a world of negroes brings your own race down.

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Hermann Burmeister (not as important)

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Published book where he referred to African’s as savaged; & encouraged colonization for them to look more like white people

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Sir Francis Galton & Scientific Scale of Racial Values*

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“Father of Eugenics”; Created Scientific Scale of Racial Values where essentially AA people are less intelligent than whites, & looked at black characteristics to compare to whites; promoted idea of saving white genes

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Herbert Spencer*

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Coined term “survival of the fittest” and put it on social concepts; those who were more fit (white people) would survive the longest due to biological factors that make them more superior

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G.O. Ferguson*

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Book titled “The Psychology of the Negro: An Experimental Study” / Mulatto Hypothesis: Black people’s intelligence was based off of the amount of white blood they had/ Defective morals are negro traits

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Edward Thorndike*

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Book titled “Human Nature and the Social Order” / Getting rid of black genes does more good than harm/ Black people were natural born slaves which is why institution of slavery existed

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G. Stanley Hall*

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Book titled “The Negro in Africa and America”/ Black people did not have the capacity for growth

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Lewis Terman*

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claimed AA were uneducable, no amount of school will make them intelligent, can only be efficient workers/ Did an experiment in California that resulted in segregation within the study

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Equitorial Hypothesis*

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Darkness in skin increased in proportion to nearness of the equator

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Smithsonian Institute

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Looked into the measurement of skin color, put Ales Hrdlicka in charge for making instructions for the measurements in human characteristics

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P.Broca (Measurement of Skin Color)

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Set of paint colors to compare inner and outer arm

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John Gray (Measurement of Skin Color)

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Tintometer: measured amount of pigmentation in hair, eyes, & skin

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Color top

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Used disks w black, red, yellow & white/ pumped until they got a color

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Felix Von Luschan (Measurement of skin color)

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Color blocks with numbers

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Gustave Fritsch (Measurement of skin color)

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Argued with the color standards and that we needed more color variation/ color strips w 49 colors

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J.H. Shabby & H.E. Bonnell (Measurement of skin color)

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Photometer: Upright box for better qualification of color

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J.C. Prichard (Hair texture)

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Claimed hair of the black man was different from any other races/ hair was like wool and not “regular” hair

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Pruner Bay & categories of hair texture)

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Claimed hair can determine race/ Classified hair in 3 categories:

1) short, fleecy, black, holly
2) long, cylindrical, black horse mane
3) wavy, curly, smooth, every shade

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Louis Sullivan (lips & hair)

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Claimed straight hair was natural hair/ Made illustration of thickness of lips (thin, medium, thick, very thick)

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Melville Herskovits

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Anthropologist; book titled “The Anthropometry of the American Negro”; One of the problems in America is the association with black people/ developed brass instruments for physical elements of negroes (students from Harvard & NYU)

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Anthropometer

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Measures stature or sitting height

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Spreading Caliper

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Used to measure distances between two points separated by a protruding shape (cranial dimensions)

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Sliding Caliper

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Measured small linear dimensions

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Racial Classification Laws

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Even an 8th drop of black (great grandparent) makes someone black

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Miscegenation Laws

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Law that forbidden interracial marriage; the penalty was weighed on the black significant other)

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Mulatto

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Pure White & Pure Black
1/2 Black
1/2 White

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Quadroon

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Mulatto & Pure White
3/4 White
1/4 Black

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Octoroon

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Pure White & Quadroon
7/8 White
1/8 Black

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Sambo (Ferguson added this)

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Pure Black and Mulatto
1/4 White
3/4 Black

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Crane & 5 Categories of Skin Color

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So light
Very Light
Medium Dark
Very Dark
Pitch Black
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Wade Nobles (Black)

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Claimed social science research is and has been used as a tool of oppression OR Scientific colonialism

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Scientific Colonialism

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Political control of knowledge; falsifying information to advance a particular group’s agenda

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Unsophisticated Falsification

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The attempt to erase and disguise African organs and history

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Integrated Modification

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Adding information to already existing ideas that distorts the original meaning

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Conceptual Incarceration

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Narrow minded in terms of information being viewed in a single perspective and excluding other world views

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Curtis Banks (Black) & Black psych in three critical methods

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Deconstructionist Response: Attempts to EXPOSE errors and weakness in traditional psych (deconstructing what’s already built)

Reconstructionist Response: CORRECTING errors in western psychology

Constructionist Response: Promote welfare of Blacks

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Thomas Gordon & the 4 basic problems with social science research

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1) Ethics (Researchers not offering explanation)
2) Methodological weaknesses (Researcher causes change in comm.)
3) Conceptual limitations (Deviance vs. Difference centered & Victim vs. System centered )
4) Political Factors (research can affect politics &who gets resources)

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Nativistic Themes (Galton)

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Human difference is the result of nature rather than nurture/ society

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Social Darwinism

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Taking the biological theory of “survival of the fittest” and applying it to social concepts of why “black people don’t survive in society”

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Galton’s Eugenics

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promoted the idea of racial improvement through selective mating and sterilization of the “unfit”

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Selective Heredity

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Racial improvement through selective mating

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Miscegenation laws

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prohibits interracial marriage

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Sterilization Laws

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Gave state to forcibly sterilize someone deemed unfit to procreate

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McDougall Theory of Instincts

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Inborn, unlearned response tendencies determines social behavior

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Mendel & Theory of Genetics

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Physical features determine internal feature (Small head= less intelligent)

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Three Basic Models of Research

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1) Inferiority Models: ALL blacks are inferior to whites
2) Deficiency Models: Blacks are deficient w/ respect to intelligence, perceptual skills, etc. (Black Matriarchy Models Black women advancing more than black men)
3) Multicultural Models: Each culture has strengths and limitations

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Eight Value Systems

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Black and white people valued the same things in different ways

1) Self
2) Feelings
3) Survival
4) Language
5) Time&Space
6) Universe
7) Death
8) Worth

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Charles Thomas (Black)

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First black psychologist to break away from APA/ encouraged community engagement, racial awareness, and instructive intervention

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William Cross (Black)

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Proposed Nigrescence: process of being black/ Deconstructionist Response

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Thomas Hilliard (Black)

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Black defendants and often seen as anti-social, sociopathic, to psychopathic

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Joseph White (Black)

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Suggests we need a black frame of reference/ Reconstructionist Response

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Bobby Wright (Black)

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Claimed black suicide was up because of systematic destruction of the Black mind; Mentacide: a systematic & intentional undermining of a person’s conscious mind/ Reconstructionist

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Lewis King

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Claimed men of racist inclination twisted science/ Reconstructionist

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Naim Akbar

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Religious and cultural beliefs are critical to the constructive’s understanding of black behaviors/ Constructionist

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Wade Nobles (IMPORTANT)

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The notion of black people with low self esteem needs to be challenged

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Inferiority Model

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Claims that blacks are intellectually, physically, and mentally inferior to whites

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Deprivations Model

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Blacks are deficient in regard to intelligence, perceptual skills, cognitive styles, family structure, etc.

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Multicultural Model

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Behaviors, lifestyles, languages, etc can only be judged as appropriate or inappropriate within a specific cultural context

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Ori-ire

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Consciousness is aligned with your destiny, you have a purpose

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Sankofa

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symbol of bird with head turned behind it to fetch the essence of life an culture

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Sakhu

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Illumination of soul and spirit

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