Joseph White: Godfather of the Field of Black Psychology

When you think about psychologists, you usually do not think they are minorities. Before this work expired, I did not think the book was prejudice that they chose to quote in the book. Not just psychology, why someone has color, whatever topic is important to his or her gender. Many psychologists have not received any awareness or opportunity because they are not a fixed idea of ​​"white man". When you are interested in entering "psychologist" at Google, the result is a white man.

In 1972, many black scholars led by editors of Reginald L. Jones published the inauguration ceremony "Black Psychology". Here, Wade W. Aristocrats introduced the philosophical basis of Africa in black psychology, Joseph White officially proposed the theory of black psychology, which is separated from the true point of view of African Americans It was. By 1974, under the guidance of editor-in-chief William David Smith, the Black Psychologist Association published "Black" to provide empirical research on publication, theoretical analysis of data, and current literature discussion in the field of black population Psychology Journal "was launched. Peer review platform. In 1984, the journal required an interpretation model based on descent values ​​in Africa and multicultural experiences of Africa, with empirical papers using the traditional deficit perspective to explain the behavior of blacks slightly increased Announced the content analysis of 10 years to show that.

As written by Joseph A. Baldwin, Kambon relies on his breakthrough paper "African Self-Awareness and African American Mental Health" published in 1984 in the field of blacks or African psychology It is. I got results. In this article, and in many subsequent articles and books, Kambon believes that human society constitutes natural biological factors, including cosmology and observation methods of the world, related to mankind. According to this view, psychopathology and self-hatred are inevitable when Africans accept the external European worldview under social circumstances. For this purpose, Kambon has developed even the African personality pool to help evaluate the progress of the person's goal to work vigorously to promote African self-awareness and release to true black consciousness .