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psychological stressors that white women could possibly encounter in their work and social life during the Civil Rights
Movement. The stress that white women could encounter come from two fronts - the white community and the blacks whom they work around. Poussaint describes how white women helping in the civil rights movements appears like a rejection that they have of their own communities. So, white communities may label them as "white trash". The black community did not want white female workers to help in the first place because they believed their presence would cause inherent problems. Many white women were not greeted or welcomed by most blacks there because they did not want whites taking over their movement. Some white female workers coped with this, but a majority went back home because they couldn't handle the stress.
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Movement. He argues that blacks had a distrust in whites and even had jealousy of them. He observed that Blacks believed Whites had a superiority complex even while being involved in the movement. Poussaint questioned whether this was because Blacks felt inadequate. During the civil rights movement sexual relations between Blacks and White began to form, and so he says from 1964 to 1965 many of the projects "disintegrated" because of these feelings each race had towards one another. Eventually, BLACK POWER came to be as a "psycho-socio-political" concept that removed whites from working in the black community.
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176:. While being hospitalized, he became very interested in reading and it soon became a passion of his. He carried this passion with him when he attended the science-based high school in New York called Stuyvesant. Stuyvesant was a predominately white institution. Pouissant was one of the few blacks and he encountered racism often. In addition to racist acts against him, he had to deal with losing his mother during high school.
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to ensure that the show promoted a positive healthy and realistic image of black families. In this role he had, Poussaint addressed negative racial stereotypes in the media. The entertainment industrial complex was not the only sector that called for
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Medical program where he was the faculty director of psychiatry. In 1969, he left Tufts and began his long-time journey at
Harvard Medical School. He was the associate dean of student affairs. At Harvard he felt a great passion for the affirmative action program and through that he helped 16 African-
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in 1997 and was praised for showing an urban soccer team that showed skills that children should exhibit, such as teamwork and inclusion. During this highlight of his career, Poussaint married Tina Young, and the two had a daughter in 1999. Poussaint continues to work at
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Alvin F. Poussaint is well known in psychology regarding race relations. Much of his work deconstructs theories of race models by white psychologists previously in the field. Through his research he addresses blatant and subtle forms of racism. This is why
Poussaint insist that blacks instill
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