Richard Majors - The International Handbook of Black Community Mental Health

EDITED BY

RICHARD MAJORS

University of ColoradoColorado Springs, USA

KAREN CARBERRY

Orri Intensive Day Treatment for Eating Disorders, UK

THEODORE S. RANSAW

Michigan State University, USA

Foreword by Professor Joseph L. White, The Father of Black Psychology

Prologue by Professor Alvin Poussaint, MD, Emeritus Harvard Medical School

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To Professor Joseph White

My elder, mentor and friend.

Professor White was The Father of Black Psychology and was one of the founding members of the Association of Black Psychology. Professor White was a scholar, pioneer, trailblazer, but even more than that he was good friend, always there when you needed him for encouragement or advice; as well he was a very kind person, humorous and, just a down to earth decent human being, who will be truly missed by all of us who knew him. And Joe yes, we will try hard to keep the faith just as you used to tell us all to do.

And to:

Professor Reginald Jones

My elder, mentor and friend.

Professor Jones was a quiet, sweet and gentle human being with a quick disarming big smile; you truly will be missed.

Professor Jones was the architect/designer, an editor of numerous articles and books (e.g. his well-known and popular Black Psychology series) on Black psychology and he was an influential Publisher of the Black Psychology Movement. He organised and structured the Black Psychology academic movement like no one else. He brought together all the top Black psychologist/academics in the world to help make Black Psychology a scientific field and a legitimate area of scholarship after Joseph White developed/created Black Psychology as a discipline. He was the founder of Cobb & Henry Publishers, one of the first Black academic presses in the USA, Cobb & Henry. Cobb & Henry was the publisher for many of his groundbreaking Black psychology publications.

His classic Black Psychology anthologies and his psychology books were published in a variety of different areas (e.g. special education and the gifted, racial identity, tests and measurements, mental health cognition and intelligence, personality and Black development and aging in children, adolescents and adults) which provided the academic platform for what we know today as Black Psychology.