Books like Even the Rat Was White
Even the Rat Was White by Robert V. Guthrie reads as critical, analytical. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.
What Even the Rat Was White is like to read A documentary history of race in the social sciences, marshaling quotes, vignettes, and case studies to expose how bias shaped what counted as knowledge. Reads as a rigorous corrective — analytical, cumulative, and quietly damning. Best for: readers of history-of-science and critical-race scholarship who want a documented account of bias in psychology's foundations.
The doctrine of DNA
Richard C. Lewontin · 1991
Same nonfiction feel
The Mismeasure of Man
Stephen Jay Gould · 1981
A rigorous critique of the science behind intelligence testing, unpacking how bias has shaped measurement across history.
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The Demon-Haunted World
Carl Sagan · 1995
A patient, passionate defense of scientific skepticism that reads like a wise mentor talking you through the seductions of pseudoscience.
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The idea of race
Ashley Montagu · 1964
Both explore racism
The story of psychology
Hunt, Morton M. · 1993
Same nonfiction feel
Fashionable nonsense
Alan D. Sokal · 1998
Same nonfiction feel
Timefulness
Marcia Bjornerud · 2018
Same nonfiction feel
Musicophilia
Oliver Sacks · 2007
An episodic tour through the strange, moving neurology of music, told through compassionate case studies that read like short essays.
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The future of man
P. B. Medawar · 1959
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The Case for God
Karen Armstrong · 2009
A sweeping intellectual history of the idea of God that builds a case for reclaiming faith as lived, apophatic practice rather than dogmatic belief.
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The evolution of beauty
Richard O. Prum · 2017
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The dialectical biologist
Richard Levins · 1985
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Who is Even the Rat Was White for? readers of history-of-science and critical-race scholarship who want a documented account of bias in psychology's foundations
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