Word: poussaint
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...media than there used to be, but there's still a lot that says that white is more beautiful and powerful than black, that white is good and black is bad," says James P. Comer, a Yale University psychiatrist who collaborated with fellow black psychiatrist Alvin F. Poussaint on Raising Black Children (Plume...
...their book, Comer and Poussaint emphasize a calm and straightforward approach. They point out that even black children from affluent homes in integrated neighborhoods need reassurance about racial issues because from their earliest days they sense that their lives are "viewed cheaply by white society." If, for example, a black little girl says she wishes she had straight blond hair, they advise parents to point out "in a relaxed and unemotional manner . . . that she is black and that most black people have nice curly black hair, and that most white people have straight hair, brown, blond, black. At this...
Boston's reputation, Poussaint says, is aconcern for prospective Black students, facultymembers and businesspeople...
...Around the country among Black people, there'sa general feeling that Boston is not hospitable inregard to race," says Associate Professor ofPsychiatry Alvin F. Poussaint, the Harvard MedicalSchool's associate dean for minority affairs...
...have gotten questions many times by peoplebeing recruited here...asking about the racialatmosphere in the city," Poussaint says."Frequently, they are influenced by the negativeimage that Boston...