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Media Contacts:
Jan Jennings, (858) 822-1684 White’s topic is the national theme of Black History Month, The Souls of Black Folk: Centennial Celebration. White is affectionately referred to as the “godfather” of black psychology by students and colleagues, and it was his 1970 article in Ebony magazine, Toward a Black Psychology, that was instrumental in beginning the modern era of African American and ethnic psychology. White is currently professor emeritus of psychology and psychiatry in the School of Social Sciences at the University of California, Irvine, where he has served as teacher, mentor, supervising psychologist, and director of ethnic studies and cross-cultural programs. He is the author of three books: The Psychology of Blacks: An African-American Perspective, The Troubled Adolescent, and Black Man Emerging: Facing the Past and Seizing a Future in America. In addition to his teaching and research, White has been a practicing psychologist, a supervising psychologist and staff affiliate psychologist to five hospitals and three clinical practices, and a consultant with school districts, universities, private organizations, drug prevention programs, and government agencies. White received bachelor’s and master’s degrees in psychology from San Francisco State College and a doctorate in clinical psychology and developmental psychology from Michigan State University. He served as chairman of the California State Psychology Licensing Board for three years and is currently a member of the board of trustees of The Menninger Foundation. For further information on UCSD’s
Black History Month celebration, visit the website at http://blackhistorymonth.ucsd.edu
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Joseph
L. White, an author, educator, and psychologist considered instrumental
in beginning the modern era of African American and ethnic psychology,
will speak at a Black History Month finale at 2 p.m. Feb. 26 in the Price
Center Theatre at the University of California, San Diego. The event is
free and open to the public.