| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 107.5

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

John P. Jackson, Jr. Social Scientists for Social Justice: Making the Case against Segregation. (Critical America.) New York: New York University Press. 2001. Pp. xii, 291. $45.00.

This book should be viewed as a revulsion against what its author, John P. Jackson, Jr., calls a "distorted" "historiographical outlook" of the social scientific "activities in the Brown litigation" (p. 5). As such, it is an attack on the arguments of a number of prominent psychologists, historians, and social critics—persons such as M. Brewster Smith, Walter Stephen, Harold Gerard, James T. Patterson, Daryl Scott, David Hollinger, Harold Cruse, and Charles Murray. For Jackson, the aforementioned scholars are nabobs of negativism, for they have argued "that social scientists stepped outside their role as scientific experts when they testified that segregation was damaging" (p. 5). As a consequence, Jackson views it as his task to contextualize the experts' arguments in Brown in order to determine whether or not their testimony in the courts could be "justified by their standards of 'scientific' objectivity" (p. 5). 1

Basing his thesis on a wide reading of manuscript sources, court cases, and secondary works, Jackson defends the interventionist orientation of psychologists such as Kenneth Clark and his colleagues and thereby assigns the blame for the failure to successfully desegregate most of the public schools either to the timidity of the Warren Court's "all deliberate speed" metaphor or to the rejection during this period of the potential of a more gradualist approach. . . .

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