Inez Beverly Prosser and the education of African Americans

Benjamin, Ludy T.; K, Henry; McMahon, Lance R.

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“…degree awarded from a department of education versus a psychology department; Benjamin et al, 2005). After graduating with a degree from Simmons College, Ruth Howard attended Columbia University, with funding from a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship Grant for Parent Education, and graduated with a MA degree in social work.…”

Section: Family Lifementioning

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Albert Sidney Beckham: The First African American School Psychologist

Graves

2009

School Psychology International

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Although the field of school psychology has presented a history of its origins (see Benjamin and Baker, 2004;Fagan and Wise, 2007;Merrell et al., 2006 for a review of the history of school psychology), individuals of non-European American descent have largely been ignored by the school psychological establishment. Specifically, in the widely circulated and National Association of School Psychologists published introductory text, School Psychology Past, Present, and Future (Fagan and Wise, 2007) background information is provided on individuals deemed to be important contributors to the development of school psychology (i.e Goddard, Hollingworth, Schmitt). In this text, there are no non-White individuals presented. This statement also holds true for the widely circulated Merrell et al. (2006) introductory school psychology text. Finally, one would expect to find a broad and diverse array of contributors to the field of school psychology in the Historical Encyclopedia of School Psychology (Fagan and Warden, 1996), but 5 School Psychology International

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Section: Family Lifementioning

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Albert Sidney Beckham: The First African American School Psychologist

Graves

2009

School Psychology International

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“…The scholarship honors Dr. Prosser, the first African American woman to receive a doctorate in psychology in the United States. Benjamin, Henry, & Mcmahon (2005) provide the perfect explanation of Dr. Prosser's impact and how her name and legacy represent the goal of this new Psi Chi scholarship, "[Prosser] had a reputation for service to others, especially in encouraging African Americans to pursue education . .…”

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“…In 2010, buoyed by the support of feminist organizations like the Society for the Psychology of Women and a federal grant from the Canadian government, the Psychology's Feminist Voices research team launched a multimedia digital archive to do just that. Although we had originally focused on psychology's explicitly feminist story lines, in developing the digital archive we became concerned that our attempts to decide who had or had not been a feminist in psychology's past would both be ''presentist'' (by projecting our current understanding of feminism onto the actions and experiences of those in the past) and overlook the substantial progress that had been made since the 1970s in rendering women visible in psychology's history (e.g., Benjamin, Henry, & McMahon, 2005;Bernstein & Russo, 1974;Bohan, 1995;Johnston & Johnson, 2008;O'Connell & Russo, 1983, 1988, 1990, 1991Scarborough & Furumoto, 1987). Thus, we decided to organize the site into two main sections: Women Past and Feminist Presence.…”

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Using Psychology’s Feminist Voices in the Classroom

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Psychology of Women Quarterly

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Just a few short decades ago, an area explicitly called feminist psychology did not exist (Stewart & Dottolo, 2006). Psychology of women courses and the materials needed to teach them did not appear until the early 1970s, and as Unger (2010) has shown, some of these earliest materials were not particularly feminist. Although today's students may not realize it, even the increased presence of women in the discipline is a fairly recent phenomenon. In 1960, only 17.5% of all doctoral degrees in psychology in the United States were awarded to women. By the year 2004, the proportion of women receiving doctorates in the field had risen to 67.4% (Women's Programs Office, American Psychological Association, 2006). Female students are now the majority in most psychology classrooms in North America. However, despite this shift, in the increasingly antifeminist, neoliberal environment that surrounds us, the future of courses and programs on women and gender, especially feminist ones, is at risk.Given this context, it seems especially important to educate students about the short history, but long past, of women and feminism in psychology. Even though feminist psychology did not coalesce until the 1970s, women (many of whom identified as feminists) have long been active and important contributors to psychology. Their voices and stories went largely undocumented until the 1970s when feminist activism brought their contributions to light. Psychology's Feminist Voices (www.fe ministvoices.com) is a unique multimedia digital archive that we have developed to highlight both the history and the current status of women and feminism in psychology. It is an advocacy tool for feminist psychology as well as an educational resource for instructors who want to include contextualized material about gender and feminism in their courses. Here, we give a brief history of the project and then present the teaching resources we have developed to help bring Psychology's Feminist Voices into the classroom. Psychology's Feminist Voices: A Short HistoryIn 2004, concerned about both the future and the past of feminism in psychology, I (A.R.) began an oral history project to collect and preserve the narratives of the women and men who strove to bring feminism to psychology in the 1970s. The project started modestly, but its greater potential soon became apparent: Instead of a preservation project with only a handful of early participants, why not expand it to explore the dynamic relationship between feminism and psychology as experienced by the very people who live it in their personal and professional lives? In addition to life narratives, I became interested in further questions: What was it like to be a feminist in psychology, then and now? How did our interview participants develop their feminist identities? How does their feminism enter their work? What do they see as the persistent challenges and future directions for the field? These questions became part of the interview protocol as the oral histories continued. The research team grew and the...

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Inez Beverly Prosser and the education of African Americans

Cited by 17 publications

References 22 publications

Albert Sidney Beckham: The First African American School Psychologist

Albert Sidney Beckham: The First African American School Psychologist

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