Word: poussaint
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Dates: during 1968-1968
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...Negro critics of the course, having earlier informed me that he was not among that segment of the course's critics who simply reject a white scholar teaching "black history," unwittingly contradicted himself. This occurred during a panel discussion between the novelist Ralph Ellison and Alvin Poussaint, a Negro phychiatrist, at Brandeis University. Dr. Poussaint argued the ridiculious line I attacked in my letter in Tuesday's Crimson, namely, that no white scholar could or should teach a so-called black curriculum, and the Social Sciences 5 critic with me at the panel turned excitedly toward me to register...
Perhaps the most absurd criticism comes from a Boston psychiatry professor, Dr. Alvin F. Poussaint, who with utter seriousness takes Styron to task for referring to Nat Turner by his first name. "Is this familiarity by the author part of intuitive white condescension and adherence to Southern racial etiquette? Is this reference and the entire book an unconscious attempt to keep Nat Turner 'in his place'? Would the novelist expect Nat Turner to address him as 'Mr. Styron'? Perhaps no one can ever know the answers to these questions...
...Media, Part 1," an examination of racism in communications, is the starting point for this series based on the proposition that 'nice' America is indeed racist, North and South, black and white. Singers Harry Belafonte and Lena Home, Writer Lawrence Neal and Psychiatrist Dr. Alvin Poussaint discuss the problems...