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Joseph White (psychologist)

1932–2017

United States

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Joseph L. White Jr. (December 19, 1932 – November 21, 2017) was an American scholar who served as professor of psychology and psychiatry at the University of California, Irvine. He is widely regarded as the "godfather" of the field of Black psychology.

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