Presenters:
Glenn Adams – “Individualist Epistemology in Psychology: A case of Modern Scientific Racism”
Leah Gordon – “The Individual and the General Situation’: Prejudice and Postwar ‘Race Relations’ ”
Moderator: George Lipsitz
Rapporteur: Carol Anderson
Session Readings:
Beyond Prejudice: Toward a Sociocultural Psychology of Racism and Oppression
The "Tension Barometer": Social Psychology, Social Ecology and Racialism in Postwar America, 1947-1954 (pages 1-4 and 14-28 are particularly relevant)
Background Library:
Commemorating Brown: Psychology as a Force of Liberation
Teaching About Racism: Pernicious Implications of the Standard Portrayal
Tribal Sovereigns: Reframing Research in American Indian Education
Chapters from:
Gordon, Leah N. “The Question of Prejudice: Social Science, Education, and the Struggle to Define ‘the Race Problem’ in Mid-Century America, 1935-1965.” PhD diss., University of Pennsylvania, 2008.
